Consumers satisfaction with water and service quality are not always in line with monitored water and service quality compliance. Reducing the difference between perceptions and realities requires understanding how perceptions ...

Increasing pressures on ecosystems in the Latin American region, as well as the adoption of multilateral conservation commitments, have led to the implementation of instruments that are economic in nature but oriented ...

Have received attention and have been in international global agenda. Recently, the discussion about water availability has been more frequent due to the lack of water in some regions of the State of Sao Paulo. Water ...

Evergrowingdemandforagriculturalandmunicipalwater,causedbypopulationgrowthandtheneedtofeedtheworld,aswellasincreasingstressoverwaterbodiescraveforefficientandsustainablewatermanagement.Especiallyinareaswheremunicipalanda ...

The assessment of water availability in river basins is at the top of the water security agenda. Historically, the assessment of stream flow discharge in Brazilian watersheds was relevant for dam dimensioning, flood control ...

This chapter is organized around the concept of ecohydrological processes that are explicitly tied to ecosystem services. Ecosystem services are benefits that people receive from ecosystems. We focus on (1) the regulating ...

In 2017, the government of Ecuador established the minimum quantity of water required to be provided for free by drinking water utilities. Ecuador recognized the access to water as a fundamental human right because it ...