En esta Monografia se trata el tema de la utilizacion del cloro y sus compuestos como medio de alcanzar los requisitos sanitarios que deben cumplir las aguas utilizadas en la industria alimentaria. Se explica la terminologia empleada en cloracion asi como la quimica del cloro en el agua y su comportamiento en funcion de Ph y temperatura. Se ejemplifican distintos sistemas de cloracion y finalmente se hace referencia a un posible programa de control de la cloracion en planta y a metodos analiticos para la evaluacion del cloro activo.

It is imperative that there be consistent and unambiguous terminology when reporting on irrigation water use, and that the metrics of water productivity and economic benefits be clearly defined. We encourage our readers to study closely the following paper by our colleagues on the definitions and uses of various water-use indicators, along with their use in economic analyses.

En esta Monografia se trata el tema de la utilizacion del cloro y sus compuestos como medio de alcanzar los requisitos sanitarios que deben cumplir las aguas utilizadas en la industria alimentaria. Se explica la terminologia empleada en cloracion asi como la quimica del cloro en el agua y su comportamiento en funcion de Ph y temperatura. Se ejemplifican distintos sistemas de cloracion y finalmente se hace referencia a un posible programa de control de la cloracion en planta y a metodos analiticos para la evaluacion del cloro activo.

The existence of a water-energy-food ‘nexus’ has been gaining significant attention in international natural resource policy debates in recent years. We argue the term ‘nexus’ can be currently seen as a buzzword: a term whose power derives from a combination of ambiguous meaning and strong normative resonance. We explore the ways in which the nexus terminology is emerging and being mobilised by different stakeholders in natural resource debates in the UK context. We suggest that in the UK the mobilisation of the nexus terminology can best be understood as symptomatic of broader global science-policy trends, including an increasing emphasis on integration as an ideal; an emphasis on technical solutions to environmental problems; achievement of efficiency gains and ‘win-wins’; and a preference for technocratic forms of environmental managerialism. We identify and critique an ‘integrative imaginary’ underpinning much of the UK discourse around the concept of the nexus, and argue that attending to questions of power is a crucial but often underplayed aspect of proposed integration. We argue that while current efforts to institutionalise the language of the nexus as a conceptual framework for research in the UK may provide a welcome opportunity for new forms of transdisciplinary, they may risk turning nexus into a ‘matter of fact’ where it should remain a ‘matter of concern’. In this vein, we indicate the importance of critique to the development of nexus research.