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| Introduction 1 chapter 1 Water In Peril: 6 Is The Crisis Looming, Or Has It Already Loomed? chapter 2 The Natural Dispensation: 19 How Much Water Is There, Who Has It, And Who Doesn’t? chapter 3 Water In History: 48 How Humans Have Always Discovered, Diverted, Accumulated, Regulated, Hoarded, And Misused Water. chapter 4 Climate, Weather, And Water: 65 Are We Changing The First, And Will Changes In The Other Two Necessarily Follow? chapter 5 Unnatural Selection: 86 Contamination, Degradation, Pollution, And Other Human Gifts To The Hydrosphere. chapter 6 The Aral Sea: 113 An Object Lesson In The Principle Of Unforeseen Consequences. chapter 7 To Give A Dam: 127 Dams Are Clean, Safe, And Store Water For Use In Bad Years, So Why Have They Suddenly Become Anathema? chapter 8 The Problem With Irrigation: 152 Irrigated Lands Are Shrinking, And Irrigation Is Joining Dams On An Ecologist’s Hit List. chapter 9 Shrinking Aquifers: 164 If The Water Mines Ever Run Out, What Then? chapter 10 The Middle East: 193 If The Water Burden Really Is A Zero-Sum Game, How Do We Get Past The Arithmetic? chapter 11 The Tigris – Euphrates System: 218 Shoot An Arrow Of Peace Into The Air, And Get A Quiverful Of Suspicions And Paranoia In Return. chapter 12 The Nile: 234 With Egypt Adding Another Million People Every Nine Months, Demand Is Already In Critical Conflict With Supply. chapter 13 Southern Africa: 251 At The Other End Of Africa, Politically Induced Famine Overlapped A Catastrophic Natural Drought, And Millions Were At Risk Of Starvation. But Some Countries Were Getting Water Policy More Or Less Right. chapter 14 The United States And Its Neighbours: 266 Whose Water Is It, Anyway, And How Are They Using (And Abusing) It? chapter 15 South Asia And The Indian Subcontinent: 317 Some Water Issues Are Intractable, And Some That Look Intractable Have, To Everyone’s Astonishment, Been Amicably Solved. chapter 16 The Chinese Are Used To Thinking Big: 334 They Built The Great Wall, After All. So Why Not Just Reorganize The Whole Country, Hydrologically Speaking? chapter 17 Solutions And Manifestos: 356 If You’re Short Of Water, Especially Clean Water, The Choices Are Conservation, Technological Invention, Or The Politics Of Violence. Chapter Notes 421 Bibliography 437 Index 444 |
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