The atlas of water : mapping the world's most critical resource / Maggie Black and Jannet King ; foreword by Margaret Catley-Carlson.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Black, Maggie, 1945-
Other Authors: King, Jannet, Clarke, Robin T., 1934-
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, [2009], ©2009.
Edition:Second edition.
Subjects:
Water-supply > Maps.
Water quality > Maps.
Groundwater > Maps.
Water resources development > Maps.
Water conservation > Maps.
Water > Pollution > Maps.
Atlases.
Maps.
Genre:
Maps.
Atlases.
Physical Description:1 atlas (128 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 25 cm
Format: Map
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.