| ID | 015228 |
| Call Number | 333.91/DEV |
| Title Proper | Water: the fate of our most precious resource |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | De Villiers, Marq |
| Publication | Boston, A Mariner Book, 2000. |
| Description | xvi, 352p Multi-colour Spine |
| Note | Provides an eye-opening account of how we are using, misusing, and abusing our planet's most vital resource. |
| Note | The where, what, and how much of the water world
Water in peril -
Is the crisis looming, or has it already loomed?
The natural dispensation -
How much water is there, who's running out?
Water in history -
Some things never change: How humans have always discovered, diverted, accumulated, regulated, hoarded, and misused water
Remaking the water world
Climate, weather, and water -
Are we changing the first, and will changes in the other two necessarily follow?
Unnatural selection -
Contamination, degradation, pollution, and other human gifts to the hydrosphere
The Aral sea -
An object lesson in the principle of unforeseen consequences
To give a Dam -
Dams are clean, safe, and store waterfor use in bad years, so why have they suddenly become anathema?
The problem with irrigation -
Irrigated lands are shrinking, and irrigation is joining dams on an ecologist's hit list. Why?
Shrinking aquifiers -
If the water mines ever run out, what then?
The reengineered river -
If you turn a river into a sewer, you can turn it back into a river again
The politics of water
The Middle East -
If the water burden really is a zero-sum game, how do we get past the arithmetic?
The Tigris-Euphrates system -
Shoot an arrow of peace into the air, and get a quiverful of suspicions and paranoia in return
The Nile -
With Egypt adding another million people every nine months, demand is already in critical conflict with supply. Another zero-sum game?
The United States and its neighbors -
In the menage a trois of Canada, Mexico, and the United States, who is the seducer and who the seducee?
The Chinese Dilemma -
China is not running out of wate, except in places where water is needed most
What is to be done?
Solutions and manifestos -
If you're short of water, especially clean water, the choices are conservation, technological invention, or the politics of violence
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| Standard Number | 0618127445 |
| Price. Qualification | $15(Pb) |
| Classification Number | 333.91 |
| Key Words | IGCSE ; UOI - Water ; Water supply ; Water - Pollution ; Water supply - Political aspects ; Water resources development - Political aspects ; Global Perspectives - IGCSE |