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This list of water resources management by country provides information on the status of water resource management at a national level. List by country: Water resources management in Argentina; Water resources management in Brazil; Water resources management in Chile; Water resources management in Colombia; Water resources management in Costa Rica
This is a list of sovereign states and dependent territories in Asia. It includes fully recognized states, states with limited but substantial international recognition, de facto states with little or no international recognition, and dependencies of both Asian and non-Asian states. In particular, it lists (i) 49 generally recognized sovereign states, all of which are members of the United ...
An improved water source, as defined by the World Health Organization (WHO), refers to a drinking water source that provides adequate and safe water for human consumption. Examples of improved water sources include piped water connections, protected wells, boreholes with hand pumps, packaged or delivered water and rainwater collection systems ...
Water transport in Asia by country (46 C) A. Water in Afghanistan (12 C, 1 P) ... Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; ...
This is the list of countries by freshwater withdrawal for the year 2020, based on the latest data available in January 2024, by World Bank and Food and Agriculture Organization (AQUASTAT data). [3] The list includes sovereign states and self-governing dependent territories based upon the ISO standard ISO 3166-1 .
Most water in Earth's atmosphere and crust comes from saline seawater, while fresh water accounts for nearly 1% of the total. The vast bulk of the water on Earth is saline or salt water, with an average salinity of 35‰ (or 3.5%, roughly equivalent to 34 grams of salts in 1 kg of seawater), though this varies slightly according to the amount of runoff received from surrounding land.
As in many other countries, those not connected to water supply networks pay the most for water. A survey in North Jakarta found the price of water in the early 1990s was $2.62/m 3 for vendor customers, $1.26/m 3 for standpipe customers, $1.08/m 3 for household resales customers, and only $0.18/m 3 for connected households.
Bodies of water of Asia (13 C, 1 P ... Maritime culture in Asia (4 C, 1 P) S. Water ... Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 ...