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Whose Water Is It?

by Bernadette (edt) Mcdonald

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ISBN13: 9780792262381
ISBN10: 0792262387
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In 2025, the United Nations expects more than half the world's population to lack sufficient water to cover basic needs. As demand continues to increase, this natural resource is used at a rate faster than it can be replenished. With less than one percent available for drinking, irrigation, and industrial use, the effects of water loss are global. This provocative book examines threats to the world's water: Asia's Aral Sea, once one of the largest inland bodies of water, is now a salty desert; 90 percent of California's wetlands have disappeared; the once-mighty Nile, Ganges, and Colorado Rivers barely reach the sea in dry seasons. And as the rate of climate change and airborne pollution quickens, the quantity and quality of available water is becoming more compromised. Conflicts over the ownership and use of that water compounds the manifold problems.

With a focus on prospects for the next 20 years, Whose Water Is It? puts a vivid and compelling face on this subject, from polar icefields facing threats from pollutants, to the water-starved regions of the Middle East, to the desert of the American Southwest. Its authors include world-renowned scientists, advocates, authors, and water managers-people whose expertise and commitment to clean and sufficient water for the 21st century has translated into creative endeavors, scientific research, and action. Whose Water Is It? presents the most important issues facing the world's water supply today and provides suggestions for aiding its future.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-227).

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A fascinating look at the urgent plight of our most precious natural resource and its future from 14 prominent environmental writers, developed by the Banff Centre for Mountain Culture and New York Times national correspondent Douglas Jehl.
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Table of Contents

  1. Bottling a birthright? /Robert Glennon
  2. The world's water : a human right or a corporate good? /Maude Barlow
  3. Three rivers /Marq de Villiers
  4. Working for water /Margaret Catley-Carlson
  5. The effect of emerging water shortages on the world's food /Lester R. Brown
  6. Mountain wise and water smart /Hans Schreier --"Water wars" and other tales of hydromythology /Aaron T. Wolf
  7. From the forest to the faucet /Mike Dombeck
  8. Accommodation turns to conflict : lessons from the Colorado /David J. Hayes
  9. Mountain water : lifeblood of the prairies /David Schindler
  10. A child's reminder /David Suzuki with Amanda McConnell
  11. A soft path : conservation, efficiency, and easing conflicts over water /Peter H. Gleick
  12. Alchemy or salvation? : desalting the sea /Douglas Jehl.

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ISBN:
9780792262381
Subtitle:
The Unquenchable Thirst of a Water-Hungry World
Editor:
McDonald, Bernadette
Editor:
McDonald, Bernadette
Editor:
Jehl, Douglas
Author:
Jehl, Douglas
Author:
McDonald, Bernadette
Editor:
Jehl, Douglas
Publisher:
National Geographic Society
Location:
Washington, D.C.
Subject:
Natural Resources
Subject:
Water-supply
Subject:
Water conservation
Subject:
Environmental Conservation & Protection - General
Subject:
General Current Events
Subject:
Environmental - Water Supply
Copyright:
2003
Series Volume:
v.28, no.7
Publication Date:
October 2003
Binding:
Hardcover
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Y
Pages:
320
Dimensions:
9.30x6.30x.93 in. 1.05 lbs.
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