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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... NAMIBIA BOTSWANA MOZAMBIQUE SWAZILAND SOUTH AFRICA LESOTHO Water for food Minimum amount of water needed to produce 1 kilogram of food 2000 1,900 1,650 litres litres 1,100 900 litres 500 litres litres 1 kg potatoes 1 kg wheat 1 kg ...
... NAMIBIA BOTSWANA MOZAMBIQUE SWAZILAND SOUTH AFRICA LESOTHO Water for food Minimum amount of water needed to produce 1 kilogram of food 2000 1,900 1,650 litres litres 1,100 900 litres 500 litres litres 1 kg potatoes 1 kg wheat 1 kg ...
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... NAMIBIA BOTSWANA SWAZILAND SOUTH AFRICA LESOTHO MOZAMBIQUE Garden of Eden The destruction of the marshlands of southern Iraq extent of marshland area in 1973 in 2002 existing marshland REUNION Tigris MONGOLIA BHUTAN NEPAL NORTH KOREA ...
... NAMIBIA BOTSWANA SWAZILAND SOUTH AFRICA LESOTHO MOZAMBIQUE Garden of Eden The destruction of the marshlands of southern Iraq extent of marshland area in 1973 in 2002 existing marshland REUNION Tigris MONGOLIA BHUTAN NEPAL NORTH KOREA ...
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... Namibia 44 Nepal 60 Nile river 35 nitrates 36,36-37 , 56 ocean 20 pollution of 50 organic water pollutants 40 , 40-41 , 62 organochlorines 56 Palestine 12 , 79 paper production 38 , 39 , 41 PCBs 40 persistent organic pollutants ( POPs ) ...
... Namibia 44 Nepal 60 Nile river 35 nitrates 36,36-37 , 56 ocean 20 pollution of 50 organic water pollutants 40 , 40-41 , 62 organochlorines 56 Palestine 12 , 79 paper production 38 , 39 , 41 PCBs 40 persistent organic pollutants ( POPs ) ...
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