The State of the World's Water
- ISBN-10
- 1780263759
- ISBN-13
- 9781780263755
- Category
- Reference
- Pages
- 128
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2016-11-08
- Publisher
- New Internationalist
- Author
- Maggie Black
Description
Completely updated, the new edition of this groundbreaking atlas maps the competing claims on limited water supplies – made by farmers, industrialists and householders – and investigates the uses and abuses of the resource, as well as the vexed question of how it can be equitably managed.
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