Island Hydrology and Freshwater Resources

Abstract

Island states and territories spread across the vast Pacific Ocean are some of the most vulnerable locations in the world. Ober the past one thousand to forty thousand years their communities have demonstrated remarkable resilience to a formidable range of natural disasters such as tropical cyclones, floods, landslips, severe droughts, earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions and wave inundation. That resilience has been underpinned by an ability to access sufficient freshwater for survival from a variety of sources and a capacity to substitute brackish water and seawater for non consumptive use in emergencies. Show more