Water Matters Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals

Langue : Anglais

Coordonnateur : Mukherjee Abhijit

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Water Matters: Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals presents a compilation of water scenarios and their relationship to multiple facets of life as water forms a nexus with food security and energy resources, thereby forming one of the fundamental pillars of sustainable development. The thematic topics focus on studies of achieving individual sustainable development goals, primarily on safe and sustainable drinking water availability, the role of water in sanitation, transboundary water, and water in the ecosystem. Each chapter presents a case study to enable a holistic review of the topic and provide insight for further research. The book integrates the knowledge on global-scale water reviews to local-scale case-studies and is ideal for hydrologists, hydrogeologists, and water managers in environmental and Earth sciences.

Part A: Water for All 1. The thirst, demand and availability 2. Nexus between water, food, energy and society 3. Challenges and Opportunity 4. Towards sustainable development Part B: Water in achieving Sustainable Development 5. Safe and Sustainable Drinking water availability (SDG 6.1) 6. Role of Water in Sanitation (SDG 6.2) 7. Water Pollution (SDG 6.3) 8. Water Scarcity and Availability (SDG 6.4) 9. Transboundary water and water governance (SDG 6.5) 10. Role of Water in Ecosystem (SDG 6.6) Part C: The Broader Picture 11. Water and Poverty Alleviation (SDG 1) 12. Role of Water in Food production and Hunger Reduction (SDG 2) 13. Managing water to reduce epidemics from water-borne and water-related diseases (SDG 3) 14. Water and Education (SDG 4) 15. Access of water and Gender equality (SDG 5) 16. Affordable and Clean Energy and Water (SDG 7) 17. Role of water in economic growth (SDG 8) 18. Water infrastructure and innovation (SDG 9) 19. Water availability to address inequalities (SDG 10) 20. Water in sustaining cities (SDG 11) 21. Sustainable water consumption and production (SDG 12) 22. Climate Change Impact on Water (SDG 13) 23. Conservation of water ecosystem (SDG 14) 24. Water harvesting to conserve terrestrial ecosystem and biodiversity (SDG 15) 25. Water related conflict, disaster, governance and water availability (SDG 16) 26. Global water for Sustainable Development (SDG 17)

Abhijit Mukherjee has a PhD from the University of Kentucky, USA and has also served as the Physical Hydrogeologist at the Alberta Geological Survey in Canada. He is currently an Associate Professor at the Dept. of Geology and Geophysics and the School of Environmental Science and Engineering at the IIT in Kharagpur, India. Abhijit has over 20 years of teaching and research experience. Among many awards and recognitions, in 2016, he was conferred the National Geoscience Award by the President of India. Dr. Mukherjee has been selected for the prestigious Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar (SSB) Prize, the highest multidisciplinary science awards in India, for the year 2020 in Earth Atmosphere Ocean and Planetary Sciences. He has been Associate Editor of several journals, including the Journal of Hydrology, Applied Geochemistry, Groundwater for Sustainable Development, Frontiers in Environmental Science and Journal of Earth System Science.

Provides interdisciplinary content that bridges knowledge from water availability to sustainability through reviews of current technologies for clean water and water security
Includes global and regional reviews and case studies, building a bridge between broad reviews of water related issues by domain experts as well as detailed case studies
Identifies pathways for transforming water knowledge to achieve sustainable development goals to policy and governance of water, food, energy security, and sustainability