Liquid Assets: How Demographic Changes and Water Management Policies Affect Freshwater ResourcesMost writings linking demographic trends to water availability often look only at population-growth effects, treating water supplies as static and population as increasing, inexorably leading to a water-availability crisis. This report's more holistic view of the interaction between demographics and water resources considers more demographic and local water-availability variables. It focuses on conditions in developing countries, where these factors intersect with the fewest socioeconomic resources to mediate. |
Contents
CHAPTER ONE Introduction | 1 |
CHAPTER TWO Freshwater Availability | 15 |
CHAPTER THREE Patterns of Demand for Fresh Water | 29 |
CHAPTER FOUR Demographic Influences on Water Resources | 37 |
CHAPTER FIVE Influences of Water Resources on Demographic Variables | 57 |
CHAPTER SIX Approaches to Sustainable Water Management | 63 |
The Water Crisis Revisited | 101 |
References | 107 |
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