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Quality unknown : the invisible water crisis /

Water quantity--too much in the case of floods, or too little in the case of droughts--grabs public attention and the media spotlight. Water quality, being predominantly invisible and hard to detect, goes largely unnoticed. This report presents new evidence and new data that call urgent attention to...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Damania, Richard (Autor), Desbureaux, Sébastien (Autor), Rodella-Boitreaud, Aude-Sophie (Autor), Russ, Jason (Economist) (Autor), Zaveri, Esha (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Washington, DC : World Bank Group, [2019]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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245 1 0 |a Quality unknown :  |b the invisible water crisis /  |c Richard Damania, Sébastien Desbureaux, Aude-Sophie Rodella, Jason Russ, and Esha Zaveri. 
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300 |a 1 online resource (xviii, 120 pages) :  |b color illustrations, color maps 
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504 |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 118-120). 
505 0 |a Intro; Contents; Acknowledgments; Executive Summary; Chapter One: Unseen Threats and Unknown Costs; Don't Count on Growing Out of It; Ignorance Is Not Bliss; How Much Does It Cost?; Sunlight Is the Best Disinfectant; Structure of the Report; Notes; References; Chapter Two: Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise; From Toilet to Tap: Water Quality and SDG 6.2; Nitrogen Pollution: Bread from Air or Toxic Plumes?; Salt Pollution: A Pinch Too Much?; Known Unknowns and a Shroud of Uncertainty; Annex 2A: The Many Uncertainties of Arsenic Contamination in Drinking Water; Notes; References 
505 8 |a Chapter Three: Salt of the Earth: Quantifying the Sensitivity of Agricultural Production to Salinity; Implications for Food Security; Toxic Water, Toxic Crops; The Way Forward; Notes; References; Chapter Four: Water Quality and Its Determinants; Gasping for Air; Global Assessment of the Drivers of Environmental Water Quality; The Way Forward; Notes; References; Chapter Five: Emerging Pollutants, Everlasting Concerns -- Microplastics and Pharmaceuticals; Profusion of Plastics; Pharmafication of Water Supplies: A Prescription for Disaster; Solutions Remain Elusive; Notes; References 
505 8 |a Chapter Six: Policies to Tame a Wicked Problem. A Wicked Problem; The Toolbox: Three Main Approaches; Evidence of Policy Effectiveness; The Prerequisites for Success; The Way Forward; Conclusions; Notes; References; Boxes; Box 1.1: Accounting for Streamflow; Box 1.2: Estimating the Impact of Upstream Biological Oxygen Demand on Downstream Gross Domestic Product; Box 1.3: Health Impacts of Heavy Metals in Drinking Water; Box 2.1: Adverse Effects of Water Pollution: Irreversible Scars through Life; Box 2.2: Nitrogen in Waters Runs Deep; Box 2.3: Data for India 
505 8 |a Box 2.4: Estimating Global Effects of Nitrate Pollution on Health; Box 2.5: Many Pollutants, Many Impacts; Box 3.1: Measuring Dissolved Salt in Water; Box 3.2: Data Used and Methodology Employed; Box 3.3: Water Reuse and the Circular Economy; Box 4.1: Nutrients, Algal Blooms, and Hypoxia; Box 4.2: Water Quality and Fisheries; Box 4.3: Generating an Environmental Water Quality Index; Box 4.4: Estimating the Determinants of Water Quality; Box 4.5: Fertilizer Application-Skewed and Distorted; Box 5.1: Impact, Pathways, and Scope of Microplastic Pollution 
505 8 |a Box 6.1: Politics and Progress of Water Quality Regulation; Box 6.2: Examples of Pollution Regulations in India and Vietnam; Box 6.3: Instruments for Water Pollution Control-Command and Control versus Economic Incentives; Box 6.4: Elusive Price Tag of Wastewater Infrastructure; Box 6.5: Treating Wastewater-End-of-Pipe Solutions or Pipe Dreams?; Box 6.6: Surface Water Quality in the European Union; Box 6.7: Nudging the Way to Good Water Quality; Box 6.8: Blockchain Meets Water Quality Monitoring; Box 6.9: Reverse Osmosis Boom in India. 
520 3 |a Water quantity--too much in the case of floods, or too little in the case of droughts--grabs public attention and the media spotlight. Water quality, being predominantly invisible and hard to detect, goes largely unnoticed. This report presents new evidence and new data that call urgent attention to the hidden dangers lying beneath water's surface. It shows how poor water quality stalls economic progress, stymies human potential, and reduces food production. It examines the effects of water quality on economic growth and finds upstream pollution lowers growth in downstream regions. It reveals that some of the most ubiquitous contaminants in water, such as nitrates and salt, have impacts that are larger, deeper, and wider than has been acknowledged. And it traces the damage to crop yields and the stark implications for food security in affected regions. An important step toward tackling the world's water quality challenge is recognizing its scale. The world needs reliable, accurate, and comprehensive information so that policy makers can have new insights, decision making can be evidence based, and citizens can call for action. The report calls for a paradigm shift that emphasizes safer, and often more cost-effective remedies that prevent pollution by combining smarter policies with newer technologies. A key message is that such solutions exist and change is possible. 
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700 1 |a Zaveri, Esha,  |e author. 
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