The World's Water 2004-2005
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The World's Water 2004-2005

The Biennial Report on Freshwater Resources

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eBook - ePub

The World's Water 2004-2005

The Biennial Report on Freshwater Resources

About this book

The quality and availability of fresh water are of critical importance to human and ecosystem health. Given its central role in the functioning of all living systems, water is arguably the most important of all natural resources.

Produced biennially, The World's Water provides a timely examination of the key issues surrounding freshwater resources and their use. Each new volume identifies and explains the most significant current trends worldwide, and offers the best data available on a variety of water-related topics.

This 2004-2005 edition of The World's Water features overview chapters on: conservation and efficiency as key tools for meeting freshwater needs; bottled water quality, costs, and trends; United Nations millennium development goals; groundwater issues; case studies of water privatization; the economic value of water; California water policy and climate change.

The World's Water is the most comprehensive and up-to-date source of information and analysis on freshwater resources and the political, economic, scientific, and technological issues associated with them. It is an essential reference for water resource professionals in government agencies and nongovernmental organizations, researchers, students, and anyone concerned with water and its use.


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Yes, you can access The World's Water 2004-2005 by Peter H. Gleick,Pacific Institute,Nicholas L. Cain,Dana Haasz,Christine Henges-Jeck,Catherine Hunt,Michael Kiparsky,Marcus Moench,Meena Palaniappan,Veena Srinivasan,Gary H. Wolff in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Biological Sciences & Ecology. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. About Island Press
  2. About the Pacific Institute for Studies in Development, Environment, and Security
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Dedication
  6. Table of Contents
  7. Table of Contents
  8. Foreword
  9. Introduction
  10. CHAPTER 1 - The Millennium Development Goals for Water: Crucial Objectives, Inadequate Commitments
  11. CHAPTER 2 - The Myth and Reality of Bottled Water
  12. CHAPTER 3 - Water Privatization Principles and Practices
  13. CHAPTER 4 - Groundwater: The Challenge of Monitoring and Management
  14. CHAPTER 5 - Urban Water Conservation: A Case Study of Residential Water Use in California
  15. CHAPTER 6 - Urban Water Conservation: A Case Study of Commercial and Industrial Water Use in California
  16. CHAPTER 7 - Climate Change and California Water Resources
  17. WATER BRIEF 1 - 3rd World Water Forum in Kyoto Disappointment and Possibility
  18. WATER BRIEF 2 - The Human Right to Water: Two Steps Forward, One Step Back
  19. WATER BRIEF 3 - The Water & Climate Bibliography
  20. WATER BRIEF 4 - Environment & Security: Water Conflict Chronology Version 2004–2005
  21. DATA TABLE 1 - Total Renewable Freshwater Supply by Country
  22. DATA TABLE 2 - Freshwater Withdrawals by Country and Sector
  23. DATA TABLE 3 - Deaths and DALYs from Selected Water-Related Diseases
  24. DATA TABLE 4 - Official Development Assistance Indicators
  25. DATA TABLE 5 - Aid to Water Supply and Sanitation by Donor, 1996 to 2001
  26. DATA TABLE 6 - Bottled Water Consumption by Country, 1997 to 2002
  27. DATA TABLE 7 - Global Bottled Water Consumption by Region, 1997 to 2002
  28. DATA TABLE 8 - Bottled Water Consumption, Share by Region, 1997 to 2002
  29. DATA TABLE 9 - Per-capita Bottled Water Consumption by Region, 1997 to 2002
  30. DATA TABLE 10 - United States Bottled Water Sales, 1991 to 2001
  31. DATA TABLE 11 - Types of Packaging Used for Bottled Water in Various Countries, 1999
  32. DATA TABLE 12 - Irrigated Area by Region, 1961 to 2001
  33. DATA TABLE 13 - Irrigated Area, Developed & Developing Countries, 1961 to 2001
  34. DATA TABLE 14 - Global Production and Yields of Major Cereal Crops, 1961 to 2002
  35. DATA TABLE 15 - Global Reported Flood Deaths, 1900 to 2002
  36. DATA TABLE 16 - United States Flood Damage by Fiscal Year, 1926 to 2001
  37. DATA TABLE 17 - Total Outbreaks of Drinking Water-Related Disease, United States, 1973 to 2000
  38. DATA TABLE 18 - a. Extinction Rate Estimates for Continental North American Fauna (percent loss/decade)
  39. DATA TABLE 19 - Proportion of Species at Risk, United States
  40. DATA TABLE 20 - United States Population and Water Withdrawals, 1900 to 2000
  41. DATA TABLE 21 - United States Economic Productivity of Water, 1900 to 2000
  42. Water Units, Data Conversions, and Constants
  43. Island Press Board of Directors