Water management is the process of developing, distributing, and managing water resources. Water resources are essential to agricultural, industrial, household, recreational, and environmental activities. Almost all these water uses by humans require sources of freshwater. Freshwater is defined as having little dissolved salts or other dissolved solids. Though freshwater is a renewable resource, the world’s supply of readily available, clean freshwater is decreasing and is being put under... więcej

Salem Press Encyclopedia of Science, 2022. 5p.