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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... plants and animals . All the rest is stored in underground aquifers . Although this groundwater is a key resource in many countries , it is being used faster than it is replenished . Surface water is in constant motion . It is ...
... plants and animals . All the rest is stored in underground aquifers . Although this groundwater is a key resource in many countries , it is being used faster than it is replenished . Surface water is in constant motion . It is ...
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... plants are very wasteful of renewable water resources . Worldwide , their total surface amounts to some 500,000 square kilometres roughly twice the size of the UK , and larger than the state of California . This leads to an enormous ...
... plants are very wasteful of renewable water resources . Worldwide , their total surface amounts to some 500,000 square kilometres roughly twice the size of the UK , and larger than the state of California . This leads to an enormous ...
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... plants to generate electricity in winter , flooding their downstream neighbours . Several engineering schemes ... plant owned by Coca Cola , which uses up to 4.5 million litres a day , is draining their water supplies . Elsewhere ...
... plants to generate electricity in winter , flooding their downstream neighbours . Several engineering schemes ... plant owned by Coca Cola , which uses up to 4.5 million litres a day , is draining their water supplies . Elsewhere ...
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