1st Edition

Water The International Crisis

By Robin Clarke Copyright 1991
206 Pages
by Routledge

200 Pages
by Routledge

Only 3 per cent of the world's water is freshwater and about one third of that is inaccessible. The rest is very unevenly distributed, parts of Canada and the Amazon, for example are both more than amply suppied. Terrible and permanent water stress can be seen, among other places, in the drylands of Africa caused not just by drought, but by poverty leading to poor land management and... Read more
Water scarcity; water needs; water and climate; the degradation of land and water; living with water scarcity; water and development; water and international conflict; high tech solutions; traditional solutions; new twists to old solutions; towards world water security.

Biography

Robin Clarke