This study is focused on small scale water and wastewater handling in Sweden. The study is divided into two major parts; the first describes common methods for water- and wastewater handling and the second part is a case study on three small and expensive systems in Gällivare municipality, in the north of Sweden. In the case study, abilitys for the local government to hand over unwanted systems to the water users is investigated and found to be a plausible solution to cut costs for two out of the three studied systems. In the third case, water and wastewater systems is not recommended to be handed over but other ways of cutting costs are suggested.

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<p>Pakistan is a densely populated country; and its population is increasing rapidly. More than fifty percent of population is living in rural areas and is related to agricultural sector. Punjab is the most populated province of Pakistan. Irrigation system of Punjab is not very developed. The present irrigation system is almost hundred year old. The management of existing irrigation system is a big challenge. With increase in population, load on existing irrigation system is also rising and situation is presenting serious problems.</p><p>This report addresses main problems related to management of irrigation system in district Sargodha of Punjab province of Pakistan. The problem with management of existing irrigation system includes social as well as technical problems. This report also discusses loss in agricultural production due to mismanagement of irrigation system. Further, report also suggests possible solutions for the management of irrigation system. These solutions take into account reforms in social sector as well as introduction of new technology.</p><p>For the assessment of report, past research related to management of irrigation system in Indus basin has been studied. This research also includes ideas of previous researchers about management of irrigation system and then we try to conclude possible solutions for better management of irrigation system in area.</p>

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Syfte: Syftet med studien är att identifiera skillnader och likheter i Ramlösa och Lokas CSR-initiativ, samt att placera deras hållbarhetstexter i relation till vårt teoretiska ramverk. Metod: Kritisk diskursanalys av Ramlösa och Lokas texter kring deras CSR-arbete. Slutsatser: Alla delar av Carrolls CSR-pyramid inkluderas i båda verksamheternas texter, men den etiska byggstenen är mest framträdande hos båda. Det framkom att den främsta explicita skillnaden låg inom den filantropiska byggstenen. Loka har valt ett mer lågmält förhållningssätt gällande framställningen av sitt filantropiska arbete till skillnad från Ramlösa som påvisar sitt filantropiska arbete på både hemsida, reklamfilmer samt på dess flaskor. Båda företagens texter vidmakthåller och bidrar till den rådande diskursordningen inom CSR.

'Skin-Deep' Impressions: Somatic Sense in an Age of Simulated Significance illuminates a variety of bodily modes of expression, ranging from body-art and popular body-fixation, over body-mutilation, body-play, and self-mutilation, to psycho-somatic patterns of behaviour. The question governing the work concerns the extent to which the physical orientation, currently characterizing our society, is to be considered a productive response to the so-called "crisis of representation." / A reading of Kerstin Ekinan's novel Blackwater (1996) is woven into and through the body of the work, indicating the shortcomings of theoretical understanding, the limitations of literary analysis, and the strength of literary narrative with respect to the issue in question. The distinction traditionally drawn between fashionable, transgressive and pathological ways of turning toward the body no longer holds. The blurring of the boundaries between self-making and self-destruction opens for a rather unexplored field of possibilities. / 'Skin-Deep' Impressions takes as its point of departure the claim made by some postmodern thinkers, that the cultural climate in the Western part of the world has turned "schizophrenic." The enthusiasm with which the arrival of the "schizo" has been received, ironically and tragically, is out of touch with reality. The suggestion emerging from my work is that the bodily phenomenon serves as a request for the reinstitution of more common frames of reference. The focus on the texture of the flesh, on physical wounds, and on the experience of physical pain, is viewed not as a manifestation of a general sense of victimization but rather, as the manifestation of a need to reinvent forms of representation allowing for the realization of emotionally intense and often ambiguous experience. The violent turn toward the body, finally, is viewed as a collective means of coping with the social unconscious, that is with the guilt associated with the crimes committed in the name of progress in the Western world. In this manner, physicality comes to substitute for what is lacking, namely a more suitable metaphysics. Paradoxically then, body-fixated subjects, commonly perceived as being self-absorbed and asocial may in fact represent a most serious attempt at introducing respect for other living beings in a culture characterized by an increasingly split between notions of humanity and conditions of living.

Diss. (sammanfattning) Umeå : Univ., 2003. / Härtill 6 uppsatser.

Diss. Ronneby : Tekn. högsk., 2002.

Diss. (sammanfattning) Uppsala : Univ., 2004. / Härtill 6 uppsatser.

Kvinnor påverkas många gånger i större utsträckning av bristande tillgång på vatten och sanitet, både psykiskt och fysiskt, än män och de fattiga är särskilt utsatta. Att kvinnor påverkas mer än män beror på olika maktrelationer i samhället, dessa behöver medvetandegöras och explicitgöras för att åtgärda kvinnoförtryck. Då tillgång till rent vatten och sanitet är en mänsklig rättighet och därmed också en internationell angelägenhet syftar denna studie till att granska internationella maktstrukturer som påverkar tillgången på vatten och sanitet för fattiga kvinnor i Afrika söder om Sahara. Ekofeminismen kombinerar feministiska ståndpunkter och miljöhänsyn därför kommer denna studie att undersöka vilken ekofeministiskt åsiktslinje som är den mest framträdande och vad detta kan innebär för kvinnorna i Sub-Sahara. Analysmetoden som används i denna studie bestod av en kombination av text- och innehållsanalys på fem jämställdhetsdokument som publicerats av Sveriges biståndsmyndighet, SIDA, för att se hur ekofeministiska åsiktlinjer visar sig. Studien visar att dualism, hierarki och dominanslogik förekommer i samtliga länder och att den andra ekofeministiska vågen är den mest förekommande, men detta är inte ett entydigt svar utan resultatet indikerar på att åsiktlinjerna även förekommer i kombination. / Often women are affected to a greater extent by the lack of access to water andsanitation, both physically and mentally, than men. In these situations the poor areparticularly vulnerable. The fact that women get more affected is due to powerrelationship in the society. To address the issues of female oppression, these powerrelationship and structures needs to apparent. Since access to clean water andsanitation is a human right, it is therefore an international concern. This study aims toexamining international power structures that affect the access of water and sanitationfor poor women in sub-Saharan Africa. Ecofeminism combines feminist positions andenvironmental concerns. Therefore, this study will investigate which opinion line ofthe theory ecofeminism is the most prominent and what this can mean for the womenin Sub-Saharan Africa. The analysis method used in this study consisted a combination of text andcontent analysis on five gender equality documents published by the Swedishassistance authority (SIDA). This will allow the study to examine how ecofeministopinion lines emerge in the documents. The study shows that dualism, hierarchy anddominance logic occur in all countries and that the second ecofeminist wave is themost common, but this is not a clear answer, the result indicates that the opinion linesalso occur in combination.