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Author Black, Maggie, 1945-

Title The atlas of water : mapping the world's most critical resource / Maggie Black and Jannet King ; foreword by Margaret Catley-Carlson
Edition Second edition
Published Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, 2009

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 MELB  363.610223 Bla/Aow  AVAILABLE
Description 128 pages : color illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Contents The global water pot -- Water shortage -- Rising demand -- Dwindling supply -- Competition and conflict -- Climate change -- Urbanization -- Altered flows -- Draining wetlands -- Drylands and droughts -- Floods -- Water for drinking -- Water for sanitation -- Water at home -- Water and disease -- Disease vectors -- Water for food -- Dispossession by water -- Irrigation -- Water for industry -- Water for energy -- Water for fisheries -- Transport and leisure -- Water for sale -- Water pollutants -- Water pollution -- Damaged waterways -- Threatened ecologies -- Millennium development goals -- Treaties and obligations -- Deepening co-operation -- Managing water -- Water footprint -- Water at a price -- Technological fixes
Notes First ed. (2004) by Robin Clarke and Jannet King
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Water conservation.
Water resources development.
Water -- Pollution.
Water-supply -- Maps.
Water-supply.
Genre/Form Maps.
Author Clarke, Robin.
King, Jannet.
ISBN 9780520259348