REACHING FOR BLUE GOLD - How the EU can rise to the water challenge while reaping the rewards. EPC Issue Paper No. 80, November 2015

Foreword. Climate change is bad news for water resources – and thus for human development, societies, economies, the environment, and local and global security. The increasing frequency and severity of extreme weather events such as droughts and floods serves as a reminder of the effects climate change can have on the quantity and quality of global water reserves, and thus on various other aspects of life. Even though the effects differ from region to region, this is a global challenge with far-reaching consequences to which Europe is not immune. As the world leaders gather in Paris in December 2015 to discuss a new international climate deal, it is worth to remind politicians, businesses and citizens of the water challenge and its wider implications, which already affect us today – and which will only get worse with climate change. However, water-related risks resulting from climate change are not a fatality and damage control doesn’t have to be the only mantra. Placing the water challenge at the centre of political and security dialogues, development strategies and climate mitigation and adaptation measures, and implementing smarter water management, could also bring great economic, environmental and social benefits, in and outside the European Union. It would also contribute to global security. Water matters – now more than ever. This is also what this publication demonstrates. Building on the European Policy Centre’s, two-year “Blue Gold” project, this publication shows the rationale for action, how the EU could use its existing internal and external policy instruments to tackle the water challenge with its various dimensions and the benefits of action.

Regulating Water Footprint in Trade: The Role of WTO Rules & Principles

World Water Week is hosted and organised by the Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI) and takes place each year in Stockholm. The World Water Week has been the annual focal point for the globe's water issues since 1991. Every year, over 200 collaborating organisations convene events at the World Water Week. In addition, individuals from around the globe present their findings at the scientific workshops.

Geology, hydrology, and quality of water in the Madera area, San Joaquin Valley, California /

Three folded maps in pocket.

Waste water disposal by Connecticut industries, inventory as of January 1, 1961.

"Compiled from basic data files of the Connecticut Water Resources Commission."

Grants and loans for municipal water supply and watewater [i.e. wastewater] treatment systems : water conservation provisions : final report of Task Force 11 /

Mode of access: Internet.

Water reuse; a bibliography.

Mode of access: Internet.

Fact sheet on Interior's Pacific Southwest Water Plan.

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Principles of a sound national water policy.

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Ground water quality [microform] : hearings before the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Research, and Foreign Agriculture of the Committee on Agriculture, House of Representatives, One Hundredth Congress, first session on H.R. 791, July 28, and September 16, 1987.

"Serial no. 100-49."

Western hydropower : changing values/new visions : report to the Western Water Policy Review Advisory Commission /

"August 1997."

Water in the West : the challenge for the next century : report of the Western Water Policy Review Advisory Commission : [final report].

Shipping list no.: 99-0021-P.

Atlas of Illinois Resources.

Succeeds Illinois resources, published in 1944 by the Illinois Post-War Planning Commission.

A program to strengthen the scientific foundation in natural resources; a supplemental report to accompany hearings on H.R. 6257 and H.R. 6900, Public Lands Committee, House of Representatives, United States Congress

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Effects of water conservation induced wastewater flow reduction : a perspective /

Mode of access: Internet.

Energy and water development appropriations for 2011 : hearings before a subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives, One Hundred Eleventh Congress, second session /

Mode of access: Internet.