WATER AS A RESOURCE
Description
of the name given to the course.
Water
Resources Management
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Water Resources Management (WRM)
Is the skillful process use of water resources for present
and future generation.
Definition of terms
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Water
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Resource
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Water
resources
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Management
Water
Is a chemical
substance which at room temperature is in liquid form, transparent, colorless,
and odorless.
The chemical
formula for is H2O:
One molecule of
water has two hydrogen atoms covalently bonded to a single oxygen atom.
Forms/ states of water
Ø Solid (Ice)- At
0 °C and below
Ø Liquid (water)- between 0 and 100 °C.
Ø Gas (Water vapor/steam) above 100 °C
A resource
Is anything that has value to human being.
-Is there any value of water to man?
-If water has any value to man then water is a
resource.
-Water is essential to human life;
Biologically human life started in water, and the human
body functioning depends 100% on water.
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Water
is a natural and renewable resource.
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Meaning
that it is not created by human being it occurs naturally and it can be re-used
again and again by means of the hydrological cycle.
What are the water resources?
Are water bodies
that are useful to human being, Water resources include things like surface rivers,
lakes, wells, waterfalls, swamps, ice caps, oceans, groundwater and wetlands.
Swamps
A swamp is a wetland ecosystem characterized
by mineral soils with poor drainage and by plant life dominated by trees..
Management
Is the skillful handling or use of something such as
resources (Encarta dictionary,
2009).
-Management is a
process therefore it needs planning- how (direction).
-It must have a
goal and a purpose/reason
Water Resources
Management is goal-directed process for
controlling the development and use of all water assets for present and future
generations.
