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Review I welcome this wide-ranging Atlas, created by knowledgeable and caring authors, Maggie Black and Jannet King. I know it will inform - but I also hope it will inspire readers to do something. -Margaret Catley-Carlson Patron of the Global Water Partnership Chair of the World Economic Forum Agenda Council on Water. "An indispensable guide to a vital issue." Scientific and Medical Network Review "Visually ingenious." OXFAM Development Resources Review "A very attractive and useful book. Highly recommended." New Agriculturalist Water may soon be one of our most valuable commodities. Unprecedented population growth coupled with a changing climate is putting pressure on the planet’s freshwater supply as never before. By 2025, 2 billion people may be facing severe water shortage. And even where water is plentiful, the poor are unlikely to have ready access to a safe supply. The new edition of this timely atlas analyses the latest thinking and emerging issues. Completely updated since the first edition, it maps the competing claims made by farmers, industrialists and householders on limited water resources, and investigates the nature of the resource, its uses and abuses, as well as the vexed question of how it can be managed equitably. Topics include • Water shortages • Excessive demands • Climate impacts • Water footprints • Competition and co-operation • Dam construction • Fragile ecosystems • pollution • Access to water and sanitation • Water pricing and privatization • Integrated water management About Author: S Meggie Black Writes on international issues for UNICEF, WaterAid and the Global Water Partnership, among others. Her recent books include Water A Matter of Life and Health (with Rupert Talbot), Water Life Force, The No-Nonsense Guide to Water, and The Last Taboo Opening the Door on the Global Sanitation Crisis (with Ben Fawcett). Jennet King was coauthor, with Robin Clarke, of the first edition of the atlas. She has spent many years researching and editing political, social, and environmental atlases, including The State of the World Atlas, the award-winning Atlas of Food and Atlas of Health, The Atlas of Endangered Species, and the World Bank series of miniAtlases on development, the environment, and human security. ISBN - 9781844078271
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Pages : 128
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