Water Wars: Drought, Flood, Folly, and the Politics of ThirstUpdated with new material Every day, we hear alarming news about droughts, pollution, population growth, and climate change—which threaten to make water, even more than oil, the cause of war within our lifetime. Diane Raines Ward reaches beyond the headlines to illuminate our most vexing problems and tells the stories of those working to solve them: hydrologists, politicians, engineers, and everyday people. Based on ten years of research spanning five continents, Water Wars offers fresh insight into a subject to which our fate is inextricably bound. |
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... Canal and realigned the West Jumna so that during the drought of 1876-78 it irrigated 395,000 acres of land , made a profit of eleven percent on its costs , and restored life to the malarial death trap at Karnal . British dams and canals ...
... Canal and realigned the West Jumna so that during the drought of 1876-78 it irrigated 395,000 acres of land , made a profit of eleven percent on its costs , and restored life to the malarial death trap at Karnal . British dams and canals ...
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... canals were bigger than the Thames . It was the first time that canals of those capacities were built . What would happen — well , nobody had a very clear idea . Everybody was after us . They said we had sold the rivers , that we were ...
... canals were bigger than the Thames . It was the first time that canals of those capacities were built . What would happen — well , nobody had a very clear idea . Everybody was after us . They said we had sold the rivers , that we were ...
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... Canal , a lined British canal built in the 1940s , " Ayub Qutub told me . " First our farm got lopped off by twenty acres and that was not so bad — but there isn't enough money to line these canals , so they are all , in Shakespearean ...
... Canal , a lined British canal built in the 1940s , " Ayub Qutub told me . " First our farm got lopped off by twenty acres and that was not so bad — but there isn't enough money to line these canals , so they are all , in Shakespearean ...
Contents
Introduction SWEET WATER | 1 |
HOLD BACK THE | 17 |
A SIN OF SCALE | 49 |
Copyright | |
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