Whose water is it? : the unquenchable thirst of a water-hungry world / edited by Bernadette McDonald and Douglas Jehl.
Language: English Publisher: Washington, D.C. National Geographic Society, 2003Description: xx, 232 sISBN:- 0792262387
- 333.91 21
- TD345
- Ppda
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
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)