Water Resources of North America (Paperback, Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2003)

Leonardo da Vinci, the eminent Renaissance scholar and philosopher said, "water is the driver of nature." Many may have considered it to be an overstatement in the past, but at the beginning of the third millennium, no sane individual would disagree with Leonardo's view. Water is becoming an increasingly scarce resource for most of the world's citizens. The current trends indicate that the overall situation is likely to deteriorate further, at least for the next two decades, unless the water profession eschews its existing "business as usual" practices, which can only allow incremental changes to occur. Somewhat surprisingly, the water profession as a whole neither realised nor appreciated the gravity of the global water situation as late as 1990, even though a few serious scholars have been pointing out the increasing criticality of the situation from around 1982. For example, the seriousness of the crisis was not a major issue, either at the International Conference on W ater and the Environment, which was organised by the UN system in Dublin and also at the UN Conference on Environment and Development at Rio de Janeiro. Held in 1992, both are considered to be important events for the water sector of the past decade. It is now being increasingly recognised that the Dublin Conference was poorly planned and organised, and thus not surprisingly it produced very little, if any, worthwhile and lasting results.

General

Imprint:	Springer-Verlag
Country of origin:	Germany
Release date:	November 2010
First published:	2003
Editors:	Asit K Biswas
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	381
Edition:	Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2003
ISBN-13:	978-3-642-05550-8
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > General Books > Business & Economics > Economics > Political economy Books > Earth & environment > Geography > General Books > Earth & environment > Earth sciences > The hydrosphere > General Books > Professional & Technical > Environmental engineering & technology > Sanitary & municipal engineering > Water supply & treatment > General Promotions
LSN:	3-642-05550-8
Barcode:	9783642055508

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