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Safeguarding the Source
Author(s) -
Lacey Marcia
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
journal ‐ american water works association
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.466
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1551-8833
pISSN - 0003-150X
DOI - 10.1002/j.1551-8833.2010.tb10179.x
Subject(s) - safeguarding , reuse , guard (computer science) , business , environmental planning , water source , natural resource economics , population , environmental economics , environmental resource management , risk analysis (engineering) , environmental science , water resource management , engineering , computer science , waste management , economics , medicine , nursing , demography , sociology , programming language
Growing population numbers, increasing demand, limited alternate sources of supply, and climate change all contribute to the concern of providing sufficient safe water in the future. These conditions have spurred utilities to incorporate integrated resource management, source water protection, reuse, conservation, and other tools to guard the quality and quantity of their supplies.