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 , the efficiency with which resources are used , the capacity of people to benefit and the health of the environment , to determine what is known as ' water poverty ' . The Water Poverty Index is a measure of integrated water ...
... water , the efficiency with which resources are used , the capacity of people to benefit and the health of the environment , to determine what is known as ' water poverty ' . The Water Poverty Index is a measure of integrated water ...
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... management strategy , the physical resource is often the starting point . Satellite images and water accounting are used to determine how much water there is , and how productively it is used . But the way the water is used and managed ...
... management strategy , the physical resource is often the starting point . Satellite images and water accounting are used to determine how much water there is , and how productively it is used . But the way the water is used and managed ...
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... water accounting 88 WaterAid 89 water dependency 75 , 76-77 water harvesting 13 , 83 , 86 , 86 , 87 water management 47 , 83 , 88 , 88-89 , 90 , 93 Water Poverty Index 83 , 88 , 88-89 water - related diseases 47 , 52-57 , 91 water resources ...
... water accounting 88 WaterAid 89 water dependency 75 , 76-77 water harvesting 13 , 83 , 86 , 86 , 87 water management 47 , 83 , 88 , 88-89 , 90 , 93 Water Poverty Index 83 , 88 , 88-89 water - related diseases 47 , 52-57 , 91 water resources ...
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