Sustainable Development and Water Security

Auteur

Melvyn Kay is a chartered civil engineer with over 40 years of international experience in water resources, particularly agricultural water management and irrigation. He is now Director of RTCS Ltd. He edited UN-Water's Sustainable Development Goal 6: Synthesis Report 2018 on Water and Sanitation and is currently chief editor of the UN FAO flagship publication on The State of the World's Land and Water Resources for Food and Agriculture. He is also the author of the textbook Practical Hydraulics and Water Resources Engineering (3rd edition).

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This book uses Sustainable Development Goal 6 to consider the concept of sustainable water resources management and how to improve global water security. It provides a critical synthesis of water resources planning and management issues across all water-using sectors.