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Theme IV-4: Water
Resources – Dr. J-M. Martin (JRC-EI, European Commission)
Presentation abstracts
will appear here as soon as possible.
The demand for water
continues to increase, bringing greater pressures on the world's
freshwater resources. Some regions are currently experiencing
considerable shortages reinforced by recurrent droughts in some
parts of Africa, thus emphasizing the dangers of over-utilization
of a dwindling resource. As world population increases, so does
consumption per capita; pollution of surface water and groundwater
deteriorates and climate change threatens. This situation will
inevitably worsen making water resources a potential source of
conflict in some parts of the globe. Ironically, in contrast to
this scarcity outlined above, many parts of the world are subjected
to floods. Indeed, flooding is responsible for the largest death
toll and destruction of all natural disasters. The goals of the
Session aim to bring together some of the most active and well
known scientists and practitioners involved in all aspects of
water resources. It will provide a forum for both the theoretical
and applied contributions, with special emphasis on :
- Water in Ecosystems
and Global Atmospheric Evolution
- Space and Earth
Remote Sensing and Regional Environmental Changes
- Accessing Geoenvironmental
Data for Ecotoxicological Issues
- Variability and
scarcity of water resources in developing countries
- Regulation of large
water systems (Canada, Europe, …)
- Protection of the
resource and policy
- Regional sharing
of water in Europe and other part of the world (Central Europe,
Mediterranean situations, ….)
This Session will discuss
the state-of-the-art of these important fields and will define
future directions for research and development and for real-world
remediation. The Session will consist of invited talks, short
papers and posters on the following topics : global water balance,
water management, water pollution (pesticides, heavy metals, fertilizers),
underground contaminations, hydrological cycle, hydrogeological
data, but also related aspects such as numeric modeling of long
and short term pollution, quality control, environmental impact
assessment, remediation, impact of scarcity of water on sustainable
economic and regional development.
Submitted abstracts
include:
Water Resources Protection
in Gas Industry, Russia
G. Akopova, N Popadko, All Russian Scientific Research Institute
of Natural Gases and Gas Technologies (VNIIGAS)
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