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Whose water is it? : the unquenchable thirst of a water-hungry world / edited by Bernadette McDonald and Douglas Jehl.

Contributor(s): Language: English Publisher: Washington, D.C. National Geographic Society, 2003Description: xx, 232 sISBN:
  • 0792262387
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 333.91 21
LOC classification:
  • TD345
Other classification:
  • Ppda
  • Ubb
  • Udxf
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Presents a collection of essays covering every aspect of the water supply crisis that is affecting the global population.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Preface(p. vii)
  • Introduction(p. xi)
  • Ownership(p. 1)
  • Bottling a Birthright?(p. 9)
  • The World's Water: A Human Right or a Corporate Good?(p. 25)
  • Three Rivers(p. 41)
  • Scarcity(p. 55)
  • Working for Water(p. 65)
  • The Effect of Emerging Water Shortages on the World's Food(p. 77)
  • Mountain Wise and Water Smart(p. 89)
  • Conflict(p. 103)
  • "Water Wars" and Other Tales of Hydromythology(p. 109)
  • From the Forest to the Faucet(p. 125)
  • Accommodation Turns to Conflict: Lessons from the Colorado(p. 139)
  • Prospects(p. 155)
  • Mountain Water: Lifeblood of the Prairies(p. 163)
  • A Child's Reminder(p. 177)
  • A Soft Path: Conservation, Efficiency, and Easing Conflicts over Water(p. 187)
  • Alchemy or Salvation? Desalting the Sea(p. 199)
  • Afterword(p. 213)