Water The Fate of Our Most Precious Resource

Name: Water The Fate of Our Most Precious Resource
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ISBN: 9780618127443

ISBN-10: 0618127445

ISBN-13: 9780618127443

Edition: 2001

Authors: Marq de Villiers, Marq De Villiers

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In his award-winning book WATER, Marq de Villiers provides an eye-opening account of how we are using, misusing, and abusing our planet's most vital resource. Encompassing ecological, historical, and cultural perspectives, de Villiers reports from hot spots as diverse as China, Las Vegas, and the Middle East, where swelling populations and unchecked development have stressed fresh water supplies nearly beyond remedy. Political struggles for control of water rage around the globe, and rampant pollution daily poses dire ecological theats. With one eye on these looming crises and the other on the history of our dependence on our planet's most precious commodity, de Villiers has crafted a…

Book details

List price: $16.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
Publication date: 7/12/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 368
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.770
Language: English

Marq De Milliers is the author of six books on travel, exploration, history, & contemporary politics, including "Into Africa: A Journey Through the Ancient Empires" & "White Tribe Dreaming", his award-winning memoir of growing up in South Africa. He lives in Nova Scotia.



Acknowledgments


Preface



The Where, What, and How Much of the Water World



Water in Peril



The Natural Dispensation



Water in History



Remaking the Water World



Climate, Weather, and Water



Unnatural Selection



The Aral Sea



To Give a Dam



The Problem with Irrigation



Shrinking Aquifers



The Reengineered River



The Politics of Water



The Middle East



The Tigris-Euphrates System



The Nile



The United States and Its Neighbors



The Chinese Dilemma



What Is to Be Done?



Solutions and Manifestos


Notes


Bibliography


Index