
- 352 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
In the last decade, water resources planners have frequently signalled an impending water crisis. The message is that the world is running out of water and that only by careful planning and the adoption of integrated water resources management can catastrophe be avoided. Stephen Brichieri-Colombi challenges these perceptions. He maintains that the crisis is one of resource management rather than availability: it arises because water resource planners advocate exploitation of rivers without due regard to social, environmental and geopolitical consequences. The author advances a new paradigm - water in the national economy - which will enable developing countries to meet future food and water demands without increasing abstraction from rivers and consequential riparian conflict. This is a powerful re-appraisal of the development of global water resources.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- List of Tables
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- 1. Water in crisis
- 2. Weasel words of water
- 3. Two large basins
- 4. Unnatural relations
- 5. Water lawlessness
- 6. Basin anarchy
- 7. Illusions of optimality
- 8. Beyond the river
- 9. Changing populations
- 10 Supersizing the world
- 11. Diets in transition
- 12. Food for all
- 13. Shopping around for food
- 14. Blue and green energy
- 15. Changing the paradigm
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index