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Heightened competition for freshwater supplies has intensified water scarcity and compromised the ability of freshwater ecosystems to generate goods and services required for human well-being. Water markets and accompanying water rights reforms have featured prominently in the establishment of robust water allocations to restore freshwater ecosystem health. Because many freshwater ecosystems ha...

Global increases in consumption of chemical nutrients, application of pesticides, and water withdrawal to enhance agricultural yield have resulted in degraded water quality and reduced water availability. Efforts to safeguard or improve environmental conditions of agroecosystems have usually focused on managing on-farm activities to reduce materials loss and conserve habitat. Another management...

biological indicators are species that can be employed to monitor environmental quality and ecosystem health. different groups of organisms such as plants, animals, bacteria and parasites regularly produce certain molecular signal in response to changes in their environmental milieu. parasites are important tools for providing wealth of information on physicochemical quality, environmental stre...

Water has several unique physical and chemical properties that have influenced Life as it has evolved. Indeed the very concept of Life on the Earth is dependent on water supply. Although the total volume of fresh water on Earth is only a small fraction of that in the oceans, the biological and environmental role of freshwater systems is considerable. Environmental management of water systems (r...

The European Water Framework Directive is shaping a new conception of integrative water protection. In this article, the consequences of the Water Framework Directive in respect to national environmental policy will be discussed in referring to the notion of responsibility which is a central concept of political philosophy and theory. It will be shown that the new conception of integrative wate...