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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... wetlands have not been cancelled in the same way . Wetlands have often been seen as wastelands , serving no useful purpose . About half of them have disappeared in the past 100 years . In some areas of Europe , such as Germany and ...
... wetlands have not been cancelled in the same way . Wetlands have often been seen as wastelands , serving no useful purpose . About half of them have disappeared in the past 100 years . In some areas of Europe , such as Germany and ...
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... WETLANDS Wetlands help keep the world's freshwater resources. South - to - North water diversion : Water for coal A shortage of water in Shanxi province has cost China US $ 600 million a year in lost coal production , and restricted the ...
... WETLANDS Wetlands help keep the world's freshwater resources. South - to - North water diversion : Water for coal A shortage of water in Shanxi province has cost China US $ 600 million a year in lost coal production , and restricted the ...
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Robin Clarke, Jannet King. Protecting wetlands Area of protected wetlands in countries that are signatories to the Ramsar Convention 2002 5 million or more hectares 1 million - 4.9 million hectares 500,000-999,000 hectares 100,000 ...
Robin Clarke, Jannet King. Protecting wetlands Area of protected wetlands in countries that are signatories to the Ramsar Convention 2002 5 million or more hectares 1 million - 4.9 million hectares 500,000-999,000 hectares 100,000 ...
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