Authors: Sandra Postel, Linda Starke
ISBN-13: 9780393317442, ISBN-10: 0393317447
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Date Published: June 1997
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Sandra Postel lives in Amherst, Massachusetts, where she directs the Global Water Policy Project. She is a Pew Fellow in Conservation and the Environment and a former vice president for research at the Worldwatch Institute. Her previous book, Last Oasis, now appears in eight languages and was the basis for a PBS television documentary.
As we approach the twenty-first century, we are entering a new era-an era of water scarcity.
Postel, vice president for research of the Worldwatch Institute, examines the worldwide limits--ecological, economic, and political--of water, and discloses existing methods to make water go further, decreasing the likelihood of both scarcity and conflict. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Introduction to the New Edition | ||
Acknowledgments | ||
1 | An Illusion of Plenty | 17 |
2 | Signs of Scarcity | 27 |
3 | Engineering's Promise | 38 |
4 | Bread and Water | 48 |
5 | Paradise Lost | 60 |
6 | Hydropolitics | 73 |
7 | A World Heating Up | 87 |
8 | Thrifty Irrigation | 99 |
9 | Small-Scale Solutions | 114 |
10 | Wastewater No More | 126 |
11 | Industrial Recycling | 136 |
12 | Conserving in Cities | 146 |
13 | Pricing, Markets, and Regulations | 165 |
14 | A Water Ethic | 183 |
Notes | 193 | |
Index | 229 |