1st Edition
Water for the Americas Challenges and Opportunities
Part I. Introduction 1. Introduction and Overview Part II. Water Scarcity in the Americas 2. Water Scarcity in the Americas: Common Challenges – A Northern Perspective 3. Water Scarcity in Latin America and the Caribbean Myths and Reality Part III . Serving the unserved 4. Supply and sanitation: serving the urban unserved 5. Supply and Sanitation: How Are the Unserved to Be Served? Serving the Rural Unserved Part IV. Transboundary issues 6. The La Plata river basin 7. Water Governance in the Mackenzie River Basin, Canada 8. The unintentional and intentional recharge of aquifers in the Tula and the Mexico Valleys: The Megalopolis needs Mega solutions Part V. Indigenous cultures and rights 9. The Role of Indigenous Claims to Water and Indigenous Knowledge 10. Northern voices, Northern waters: traditional knowledge and water policy development in the northwest territories Part VI. Institutional innovations: learning from Asia 11. Institutional response as an adaptation to water scarcity 12. Innovations in Agricultural Groundwater Management: Examples from India Part VII. Conclusions
Biography
Alberto Garrido is a Professor of Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics at the Technical University of Madrid Spain.
Mordechai Shechter is a Dean at the School of Sustainability, Interdisciplinary Center (IDC), Herzilya, Israel.
‘Water for The Americas: Challenges & Opportunities is a stunning reading experience for experts and practitioners, one of the best books on water resource management I know’ — Jaroslav Mysiak, Euro-Mediterranean Centre on Climate Change, Italy
