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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... Mexico City Chicago New York Mexico east coast Flonda Mexico City , Mexico The city centre has subsided by 7.5 metres since 1950 Ciudad Juárez / El Paso Mexico - USA border The aquifer that supports 1.5 million people is expected to be ...
... Mexico City Chicago New York Mexico east coast Flonda Mexico City , Mexico The city centre has subsided by 7.5 metres since 1950 Ciudad Juárez / El Paso Mexico - USA border The aquifer that supports 1.5 million people is expected to be ...
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... cities , where to get the water from . Many of the world's largest cities - Los Angeles , Mexico City , Cairo , Calcutta , Beijing are located in water - stressed areas , and they are struggling to meet the water needs of their growing ...
... cities , where to get the water from . Many of the world's largest cities - Los Angeles , Mexico City , Cairo , Calcutta , Beijing are located in water - stressed areas , and they are struggling to meet the water needs of their growing ...
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... Mexico ' International Water Management Institute Research Report 41 , 2000 < www.iwmi.cgiar.org/pubs/pub041/Report41.pdf > Mexico City's Water Supply . National Academy Press , Washington DC , 1995 < lanic.utexas.edu/la/Mexico/water ...
... Mexico ' International Water Management Institute Research Report 41 , 2000 < www.iwmi.cgiar.org/pubs/pub041/Report41.pdf > Mexico City's Water Supply . National Academy Press , Washington DC , 1995 < lanic.utexas.edu/la/Mexico/water ...
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