Water is as vital as air but it can no longer be taken for granted. More than one billion people currently live in conditions of extreme water stress. Why are deserts spreading? What effects will climate change have on rainfall and water tables? How is pollution affecting the global water supply? In this text the author examines how industrialization and pollution are impacting on the quality and supply of the world's water. He goes on to reveal the international struggle for dominance over the world's water resources and asks whether water wars will erupt in the 21st century. This is a story of the vainglorious and often brutal attempt to control and harvest the Earth's most precious resource.
- ISBN10 0297842706
- ISBN13 9780297842705
- Publish Date 8 July 1999
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 13 May 2003
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Orion Publishing Co
- Imprint Weidenfeld & Nicolson
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 320
- Language English