The Atlas of WaterCovering the global picture, this book provides an overview of our water consumption, as well as highlighting the scarcity and quality of our most critical resource in vulnerable regions such as California, the Middle East and India. |
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... Asia 248,000 years Eastern Mediterranean 602,000 years Africa 1.5 million years AMERICAS Africa 608,000 270,000 -77,000 Southeast Asia 699,000 55,000 -15,000 Total deaths from dirty water : 1.724 million EUROPE EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN ...
... Asia 248,000 years Eastern Mediterranean 602,000 years Africa 1.5 million years AMERICAS Africa 608,000 270,000 -77,000 Southeast Asia 699,000 55,000 -15,000 Total deaths from dirty water : 1.724 million EUROPE EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN ...
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... Asia Dengue Number of deaths from dengue haemorrhagic fever ( DHF ) by region 2001 Eastern Mediterranean 2,000 Western Pacific 3,000 Southeast Asia 12,000 Latin America 3,000 Total deaths from DHF : 20,000 Blighted lives Number of ...
... Asia Dengue Number of deaths from dengue haemorrhagic fever ( DHF ) by region 2001 Eastern Mediterranean 2,000 Western Pacific 3,000 Southeast Asia 12,000 Latin America 3,000 Total deaths from DHF : 20,000 Blighted lives Number of ...
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... Asia Latin America & Caribbean Africa Asia Latin North No sanitation In Africa and Asia 60 percent of city dwellers live without adequate sanitation America America & Caribbean Mexico City growth Increasing number of people 1940-2000 ...
... Asia Latin America & Caribbean Africa Asia Latin North No sanitation In Africa and Asia 60 percent of city dwellers live without adequate sanitation America America & Caribbean Mexico City growth Increasing number of people 1940-2000 ...
Contents
Introduction | 11 |
About the authors | 17 |
MORE PEOPLE LESS WATER | 23 |
Copyright | |
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AFGHANISTAN agriculture ALGERIA amount of water ANGOLA ZAMBIA aquifers areas ARGENTINA Asia BANGLADESH BELARUS BURUNDI CAMBODIA CAMEROON CENTRAL AFRICAN REP CHILE COLOMBIA CONGO contaminated cubic metres dams desalination developing countries disease DJIBOUTI domestic DOMINICAN drinking water ECUADOR EQUATORIAL GUINEA ERITREA ETHIOPIA flood fresh water GABON groundwater GUATEMALA EL SALVADOR GUINEA-BISSAU GUYANA hectares HONDURAS HUNGARY hydropower India INDONESIA industrial IRAN IRAQ irrigation Israel JAMAICA JORDAN KAZAKHSTAN KENYA kilometres km³ KUWAIT KYRGYZSTAN LEBANON LESOTHO LITHUANIA litres m³ per person MADAGASCAR MALAWI MALAYSIA MAURITANIA Mexico mg/litre million MOLDOVA MONGOLIA MOROCCO ALGERIA MOZAMBIQUE NAMIBIA NAMIBIA BOTSWANA NEPAL NICARAGUA NIGER NIGERIA PAKISTAN PAPUA NEW GUINEA PARAGUAY PERU BRAZIL PHILIPPINES pollutants population renewable water REPUBLIC rivers ROMANIA RUSSIA sanitation SENEGAL GAMBIA SOUTH KOREA SOUTH KOREA CHINA SRI LANKA SUDAN SYRIA TAJIKISTAN TANZANIA TRINIDAD & TOBAGO Turkey TURKMENISTAN UKRAINE URUGUAY UZBEKISTAN VENEZUELA wastewater water resources water supply wetlands World Water YEMEN ZAMBIA ZIMBABWE