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