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Bulletin nº Vol 57 (3) - 2008
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Publish Date: 1 July 2008
As populations grow and economies expand, competition for water to meet household, municipal, agricultural and industrial needs continuously increases. Moreover, laws and regulations aimed at keeping water in rivers and streams to meet environmental and recreational objectives are similarly increasing.
Bulletin nº Vol 57 (3) - 2008
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Publish Date: 1 July 2008
New demands on surface-water resources from an increasing world population and rising global living standards are requiring water managers to improve river flow measurements. Water managers are requiring flow instrumentation to measure those resources more accurately, in more detail and at lesser cost.
Bulletin nº Vol 57 (3) - 2008
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Publish Date: 1 July 2008
One of the most spectacular achievements of the International Geophysical Year (IGY) is the establishment of over 25 meteorological stations on the Antarctic continent through the cooperative efforts of 12...
Bulletin nº Vol 57 (3) - 2008
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Publish Date: 1 July 2008
The Secretary-General, Michel Jarraud, recently made official visits to a number of Member countries as briefly reported below. He wishes to place on record his gratitude to those Members for the kindness and hospitality extended to him.
Bulletin nº Vol 57 (1) - 2008
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Publish Date: 1 January 2008
The non-uniformity of change highlights the challenges of regional climate change that has considerable spatial structure and temporal variability. A foundation of climate research and future projections comes from observations.
Bulletin nº Vol 57 (1) - 2008
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Publish Date: 1 January 2008
Scientific progress has equipped mankind with tools that can possibly reduce the adverse impacts of natural hazards, enabling some capacity to predict in advance what will happen so that, potentially at least, some kind of preventive action can be taken.
Bulletin nº Vol 57 (3) - 2008
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Publish Date: 1 July 2008
In broad terms, a hydrological service is an institution whose core business is the provision of information about the water (or hydrological) cycle and the status and trends of a country’s water resources.
Bulletin nº Vol 57 (3) - 2008
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Publish Date: 1 July 2008
http://www.icsu.org In the late 1950s, the time when the Commission for Hydrology was coming into being, our world was very different. There were several thousand million fewer people living on the globe and nature was much more “natural” than today.
Bulletin nº Vol 57 (1) - 2008
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Publish Date: 1 January 2008
Hydrological observations are inseparable from the uses to which they are put. They are central to addressing water resources problems related to floods and droughts, agricultural sustainability and global climate change.
Bulletin nº Vol 57 (2) - 2008
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Publish Date: 1 April 2008
It is clear by now that the issue of anthropogenic climate change and its impact on human societies and natural ecosystems is among the most important environmental and scientific challenges of this century. The development of suitable policies to adapt to climate change and to stabilize greenhouse gas concentrations below the “danger” threshold hinges upon the availability of climate information at scales from regional to country and even local level.
