Water Crisis: Myth or Reality?Peter P. Rogers, M. Ramón Llamas, Luis Martinez Cortina CRC Press, 2005 M12 22 - 344 pages Always considered a classic renewable resource, after a hundred thousand years of farming and industry, rivers in many parts of the world are running dry and the groundwater is over pumped. In addition, the rate at which water sources are becoming contaminated with waste from humans, industry, and agriculture is truly alarming. Do these factors add up to a water crisis that merits drastic, large-scale action? Not necessarily say the editors of Water Crisis: Myth or Reality. They challenge this pessimism, concluding that while there are serious global water issues to be considered, the concept of a global water crisis is largely overstated. The book examines the issues and explores which conditions are permanent and unchangeable and which are remediable and changeable. The chapters explore when and where severe regional and local water problems occur and make suggestions about how they may be solved in a deliberate, non-crisis manner. The book covers recent breakthroughs in desalination technologies, the eco-sanitation revolution, international trade in agricultural products, methods of governance and negotiation in water allocation, and pricing and devolution of property rights and the roles they play in solving water issues. The editors, along with a panel of world-renowned experts, suggest that water issues can be solved over the next few decades using new technologies and processes. |
Contents
Water governance water security and water sustainability | 3 |
VGROUNDWATER | 8 |
Water for growth and security | 37 |
is the Tragedy of | 43 |
The economic conception of water | 61 |
The value of water and theories of economic growth | 93 |
more crops per drop | 105 |
more crops per drop | 119 |
Is intensive use of groundwater a solution to worlds water crisis? | 181 |
the role of investments and policy interventions | 197 |
Do investments and policy interventions reach the poorest of the poor? | 221 |
Water and nature The berth of life | 235 |
a critical link for solving the water management crisis | 253 |
two sustainable | 285 |
comments | 323 |
Virtual Water Part of an invisible synergy that ameliorates water scarcity | 131 |
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