By Peter H. Gleick,Meena Palaniappan,Mari Morikawa,Jason Morrison,Heather Cooley
• water and weather change
• water in China
• prestige of the Millennium improvement targets for water
• height water
• effective city water use
• enterprise reporting on water
This new quantity includes an up-to-date chronology of worldwide conflicts linked to water, in addition to short experiences of matters relating to desalination, the Salton Sea, and the 3 Gorges Dam.
From the world’s major authority on water matters, The World’s Water is the main accomplished and updated resource of knowledge and research on freshwater assets and the political, monetary, clinical, and technological concerns linked to them. it's a necessary reference for water source execs in executive organizations and nongovernmental organisations, researchers, scholars, and an individual desirous about water and its use.
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