240 Pages
by
Routledge
240 Pages
by
Routledge
240 Pages
by
Routledge
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For decades now we have wasted and mismanaged the world?s water supplies. Today, 27 countries are short of water, a quarter of the world?s population has no safe water, 46 per cent have no proper sanitation and each year four million children die of water-borne diseases. As most of the world?s major river systems cross several national boundaries, the scope disputes and the threat to international... Read more
An Illusion of Plenty
I Trouble on Tap - Signs of Scarcity - Engineering's Promise - Bread and Water - Paradise Lost - Hydropolitics - A World Heating Up
II Living Within Water's Limits - Thrifty Irrigation - Small-Scale Solutions - Wastewater No More - Industrial Recycling - Conserving in Cities
III Toward Water Security - Pricing, Markets and Regulations - A Water Ethic
Biography
Postel, Sandra
