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  title info:
    title: Water wars
    sub title: drought, flood, folly, and the politics of thirst
  name:
    name part: Ward, Diane Raines
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2003
    edition: 1st Riverhead trade pbk. ed.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 307 pages ; 21 cm
  abstract: "The story of water is fascinating, complex, with roots as deep as civilization. Despite its profound, life-giving role in our planet's history, what we hear about it today is mostly bad news: The world's supply is severely at risk. We're reminded of this daily, with word of another drought, or alarming statistics about pollution, population growth, and climate changes, which together threaten to make water, even more than oil, the cause of war within our life time. Why have we allowed something so elemental to our existence to drift into such a precarious state? And what can we do to change the course we're on?" "Water Wars seeks the answers to these urgent questions in the places where the struggle to control water has been most intense. After a decade of traveling and reporting on five continents, Diane Raines Ward has produced an intimate look at the world's most embattled water regions, as well as the most inspiring advocates to emerge from them. Each has a compelling story to tell."--Jacket.
  table of contents: Sweet water -- Hold back the sea : climate shock and rising waters -- A sin of scale : the great projects -- A thousand valleys : river basins and utopian dreams -- Dry, drier, driest : greening the desert -- Predicaments : power and water -- Raging rivers : living in floodplains -- The wars -- Praying for rain -- The everglades.
  note: Diane Raines Ward.
  note: 1st Riverhead hardcover edition: August 2002.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-294) and index.
  subject:
    topic: Water resources management
  subject:
    topic: Hydraulic engineering
  subject:
    topic: Water
    topic: Political aspects
  subject:
    topic: Water rights
  subject:
    topic: Water-supply
    topic: International cooperation
  subject:
    topic: Technologie hydraulique
  subject:
    topic: Eau
    topic: Aspect politique
  subject:
    topic: Droits sur les eaux
  subject:
    topic: Eau
    topic: Approvisionnement
    topic: Coopération internationale
  subject:
    topic: hydraulic engineering
  subject:
    topic: water rights
  subject:
    topic: Hydraulic engineering
  subject:
    topic: Water
    topic: Political aspects
  subject:
    topic: Water rights
  subject:
    topic: Water-supply
    topic: International cooperation
  subject:
    topic: Watervoorziening
  subject:
    topic: Waterhuishouding
  subject:
    topic: Droogte
  subject:
    topic: Macht
  subject:
    topic: Oorlog
  subject:
    topic: Water
  subject:
    topic: Conflicts
  subject:
    topic: Co-operation
  subject:
    topic: Drought
  subject:
    topic: Floods
  subject:
    topic: Natural history - general.
  subject:
    topic: Management of land & natural resources.
  classification: TD345 .W257 2002
  classification: 333.9117
  classification: 43.50
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Water wars
    name:
      name part: Ward, Diane Raines.
    origin info:
      publisher: New York : Riverhead Books, 2003, ©2002
      edition: 1st Riverhead trade pbk. ed.
    identifier: (OCoLC)891678416
  identifier: 1573229954
  identifier: 9781573229951
  identifier: 1573222291
  identifier: 9781573222297
  identifier: 2002021301
  location:
    physical location: TAG TAGC
  record info:
    record content source: LD4
    record creation date: 040310
    record change date: 20240807185208.6
    record identifier: in00004809254
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng