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- catalog contributor b11386328.
- catalog created "1999.".
- catalog date "1999".
- catalog date "1999.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1999.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [389]-395) and index.".
- catalog description "Pt. I. The where, what, and how much of the water world -- 1. Water in Peril: Is the crisis looming, or has it already loomed? -- 2. The Hydrologic Cycle: How much water is there, and where is it stored? -- 3. The Natural Dispensation: Who has how much, and who's running out? -- 4. Water in History: How humans have always discovered, diverted, accumulated, regulated, hoarded, and misused water -- Pt. II. Remaking the water world -- 5. Climate, Weather, and Water: Are we changing the first, and will changes in the other two necessarily follow? -- 6. Unnatural Selection: Contamination, degradation, pollution, and other human gifts to the hydrosphere -- 7. The Aral Sea: An object lesson in the principle of unforeseen consequences -- 8. To Give a Dam: Dams are clean, safe, and store water for use in bad years, so why have they suddenly become anathema? -- 9. The Problem with Irrigation: Irrigated lands are shrinking, and irrigation is joining dams on an ecologist's hit list -- 10. Shrinking Aquifers: If the water mines ever run out, what then? -- 11. The Re-engineered River: If you turn a river into a sewer, you can turn it back into a river again -- Pt. III. The politics of water -- 12. The Middle East: If the water burden really is a zero-sum game, how do we get past the arithmetic? -- 13. The Nile: With Egypt adding another million people every nine months, demand is already in critical conflict with supply -- 14. The Tigris-Euphrates System: Shoot an arrow of peace into the air, and get a quiverful of suspicions and paranoias in return -- 15. The United States and Its Neighbours: In the menage a trois of Canada, Mexico, and the United States, who is the seducer and who the seducees? -- 16. The Indian Subcontinent: Some water issues are intractable, and some that look intractable have, to everyone's astonishment, been amicably solved -- 17. The Chinese Dilemma: China is not running out of water, except in places where water is needed most.".
- catalog description "Pt. IV. What is to be done? -- 18. Solutions and Manifestos: If you're short of water, the choices are conservation, technological invention, or the politics of violence -- App. Available Water.".
- catalog extent "xvi, 413 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0297842706".
- catalog issued "1999".
- catalog issued "1999.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson,".
- catalog subject "333.91 21".
- catalog subject "Water-supply.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Pt. I. The where, what, and how much of the water world -- 1. Water in Peril: Is the crisis looming, or has it already loomed? -- 2. The Hydrologic Cycle: How much water is there, and where is it stored? -- 3. The Natural Dispensation: Who has how much, and who's running out? -- 4. Water in History: How humans have always discovered, diverted, accumulated, regulated, hoarded, and misused water -- Pt. II. Remaking the water world -- 5. Climate, Weather, and Water: Are we changing the first, and will changes in the other two necessarily follow? -- 6. Unnatural Selection: Contamination, degradation, pollution, and other human gifts to the hydrosphere -- 7. The Aral Sea: An object lesson in the principle of unforeseen consequences -- 8. To Give a Dam: Dams are clean, safe, and store water for use in bad years, so why have they suddenly become anathema? -- 9. The Problem with Irrigation: Irrigated lands are shrinking, and irrigation is joining dams on an ecologist's hit list -- 10. Shrinking Aquifers: If the water mines ever run out, what then? -- 11. The Re-engineered River: If you turn a river into a sewer, you can turn it back into a river again -- Pt. III. The politics of water -- 12. The Middle East: If the water burden really is a zero-sum game, how do we get past the arithmetic? -- 13. The Nile: With Egypt adding another million people every nine months, demand is already in critical conflict with supply -- 14. The Tigris-Euphrates System: Shoot an arrow of peace into the air, and get a quiverful of suspicions and paranoias in return -- 15. The United States and Its Neighbours: In the menage a trois of Canada, Mexico, and the United States, who is the seducer and who the seducees? -- 16. The Indian Subcontinent: Some water issues are intractable, and some that look intractable have, to everyone's astonishment, been amicably solved -- 17. The Chinese Dilemma: China is not running out of water, except in places where water is needed most.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Pt. IV. What is to be done? -- 18. Solutions and Manifestos: If you're short of water, the choices are conservation, technological invention, or the politics of violence -- App. Available Water.".
- catalog title "Water wars : is the world's water running out? / Marq de Villiers.".
- catalog type "text".