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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... water mining in : San Joachim Valley , California - 10 metres Phoenix , Arizona - more than 1 metre Houston - Galveston , Texas - 1 metre Milwaukee , USA Water table dropped 114 metres by 1976 Chicago , USA Water table had dropped by ...
... water mining in : San Joachim Valley , California - 10 metres Phoenix , Arizona - more than 1 metre Houston - Galveston , Texas - 1 metre Milwaukee , USA Water table dropped 114 metres by 1976 Chicago , USA Water table had dropped by ...
Page 65
... water levels are sinking fast . London Ruhr area Saint Petersburg Moscow Lagos Istanbul ISRAEL Cairo Tehran Lahore ... Water table is dropping by 1 metre per year Baluchistan , Pakistan Water table is dropping by 3.5 metres per year ...
... water levels are sinking fast . London Ruhr area Saint Petersburg Moscow Lagos Istanbul ISRAEL Cairo Tehran Lahore ... Water table is dropping by 1 metre per year Baluchistan , Pakistan Water table is dropping by 3.5 metres per year ...
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... 88 , 88-89 water - related diseases 47 , 52-57 , 91 water resources 20 , 20-21 , 78 , 89 water - saving appliances 86 , 86 water scarcity 22-23 water sources 20-21 , 24 water stress 19 , 22-23 , 68 water subsidies 60 , 85 water table 20 ...
... 88 , 88-89 water - related diseases 47 , 52-57 , 91 water resources 20 , 20-21 , 78 , 89 water - saving appliances 86 , 86 water scarcity 22-23 water sources 20-21 , 24 water stress 19 , 22-23 , 68 water subsidies 60 , 85 water table 20 ...
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