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Tapped out: the coming world crisis in water and what we can do about it

Tapped out: the coming world crisis in water and what we can do about it

Paul Simon - Nature - 1998 - 198 pages
Outlines the problems of the water supply crisis and the steps that need to be taken to avoid disaster
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The struggle for water: increasing demands on a vital resource

The struggle for water: increasing demands on a vital resource

Aaron Fishbone - Nature - 2007 - 297 pages
This title brings together a wide variety of materials on the issues and controversies surrounding the complex subject of water ownership and freshwater privatization. It ...
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Blue Covenant: The Global Water Crisis and the Coming Battle for the Right ...
Whose water is it?: the unquenchable thirst of a water-hungry world

Whose water is it?: the unquenchable thirst of a water-hungry world

Bernadette McDonald, Douglas Jehl - Nature - 2003 - 232 pages
Presents a collection of essays covering every aspect of the water supply crisis that is affecting the global population.
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Water Atlas -Op/106: A Unique Visual Analysis of the World's Most Critical ...
The Atlas of Food: Who Eats What, Where and Why
The Last Oasis: Facing Water Scarcity

The Last Oasis: Facing Water Scarcity

Sandra Postel - Nature - 1997 - 239 pages
Argues that a long history of mismanagement of water resources has endangered our water supplies, suggests ways to conserve water, and discusses the economic, political, and ...
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Blue Gold: The Battle Against Corporate Theft of the World's Water

Blue Gold: The Battle Against Corporate Theft of the World's Water

Maude Barlow, Tony Clarke - Nature - 2002 - 296 pages
In a shocking expos, "Blue Gold, " available now in paperback, shows why, as the vice president of the World Bank has pronounced, "The wars of the next century will be about ...
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The Last Taboo: Opening the Door on the Global Sanitation Crisis

The Last Taboo: Opening the Door on the Global Sanitation Crisis

Maggie Black, Ben Fawcett - POLITICAL SCIENCE - 2008 - 254 pages
Except in schoolboy jokes, the subject of human waste is rarely aired. We talk about 'water-related' diseases when most are sanitation-related - in short, we don't mention the ...
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Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water, Revised Edition

Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water, Revised Edition

Marc Reisner - History - 1993 - 608 pages
Newly updated, this timely history of the struggle to discover and control water in the American West is a tale of rivers diverted and damned, political corruption and intrigue ...
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