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Asia is becoming the focus of global environmental concern. Of the world's 15 most polluted cities, 13 are in Asia; a third of Asians have no access to safe drinking water; and half of Asians have no access to adequate sanitation facilities.1 The rapid growth of two Asian giants, India and China, hints at a new world order coming, including a great...

As a rapidly developing metropolitan region, the Bandung Basin is experiencing growing problems with environmental degradation, one of which concerns groundwater, where there is an imbalance between discharge (withdrawal by utilities, households, and industry) and recharge in the basin's water catchment areas. One of the main causes is the ongoing...

The state of global water resources and the environment is rapidly deteriorating despite international conservation efforts. The situation in the Asian monsoon region and regions in Africa, in particular, has become serious. Many past measures to conserve water resources have been ineffective because of weak governance and lack of capacity to...

Remarks: Commissioned research report by the Ministry of the Environment, Japan (MOE)

A huge volume of groundwater was being pumped out for factories and to serve a growing population when ground subsidence was first detected in Tokyo in the years after 1910. Over the ensuing decades the water table dropped, falling to as low as 58 meters below sea level in 1965. The volume pumped out continued to grow until 1970, when it peaked at...

This report consists of three main parts: 1) Recommendations for Sustainable Groundwater Management in Asian Cities, 2) Situation Analysis and 3) Summary of Case Studies. The first part highlights the recommendations for better groundwater management. The Remarks: Final Report: "Sustainable Groundwater Management in Asian Cities: A final report of...

In order to disseminate information about the activities of the Kitakyushu Initiative to audiences in the Asia-Pacific region, this pamphlet for the 2nd phase of the Kitakyushu Initiative provides updated information on past achievements and future goals/activities.

Newsletter for the Kitakyushu Initiative programme which provides the latest information on activities of the Kitakyushu Initiative Network, as well as research and trends in urban environmental management.

Local governments and business community have long sought to attract large industrial facilities to their regions. This approach to local economic development is often met with many policy challenges, economic barriers and environmental limitations, On the other hand, environmental business that utilizes local resources and posses comparative socio...