Water Wars: Drought, Flood, Folly, and the Politics of ThirstUpdated with new material Every day, we hear alarming news about droughts, pollution, population growth, and climate change—which threaten to make water, even more than oil, the cause of war within our lifetime. Diane Raines Ward reaches beyond the headlines to illuminate our most vexing problems and tells the stories of those working to solve them: hydrologists, politicians, engineers, and everyday people. Based on ten years of research spanning five continents, Water Wars offers fresh insight into a subject to which our fate is inextricably bound. |
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... live on this planet . Man- aging water is at the very heart of life in dry places from Los Angeles to Lagos , from Damascus to Australia's Murray Darling River Basin— where the margin between survival and disaster is narrow , and even ...
... live on this planet . Man- aging water is at the very heart of life in dry places from Los Angeles to Lagos , from Damascus to Australia's Murray Darling River Basin— where the margin between survival and disaster is narrow , and even ...
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... lives in a pleasant neighborhood of a city already facing terrible water stress . I live in the pleasant neighborhood of a city farther from those stresses , but I know that B. G. Verghese is ultimately speaking for all of us : " The ...
... lives in a pleasant neighborhood of a city already facing terrible water stress . I live in the pleasant neighborhood of a city farther from those stresses , but I know that B. G. Verghese is ultimately speaking for all of us : " The ...
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... live in Bangladesh , a country the size of Wisconsin , and half of that population lives in the uncertain landscape of the rivers . Although growth has slowed in the last decade , thanks largely to nongovernmental organizations that ...
... live in Bangladesh , a country the size of Wisconsin , and half of that population lives in the uncertain landscape of the rivers . Although growth has slowed in the last decade , thanks largely to nongovernmental organizations that ...
Contents
Introduction SWEET WATER | 1 |
HOLD BACK THE | 17 |
A SIN OF SCALE | 49 |
Copyright | |
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