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- Water: Towards a Culture of Responsibility
- Book
- 2011
- Published by: University of New Hampshire Press
summary
Clean, fresh drinking water is essential to human and animal life. It’s equally important to the world economy: it functions as a universal solvent, makes possible industrial cooling and transportation, and is necessary for all kinds of agriculture. Antoine Frérot, CEO of Veolia Water, takes us on a tour of the world’s waters, of our water. Lack of clean water kills 2.2 million people every year, and nearly 1 billion people do not have reliable access to clean drinking water. Using examples that transform theory into close-to-home reality, Frérot issues a serious challenge while showing us how to ensure that all the fast-growing cities of Asia, Africa, and Latin America have enough water. He considers how climate change will cause water shortages and explains what we can do now to prevent them. We have the political, economic, and scientific means to ensure the future of water on earth: we need only the will to take action.
Table of Contents
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- Title page
- p. iii
- I: The Water Century
- p. 17
- 1: Satisfying Growing Needs
- pp. 20-30
- 4: Water - Is the Service Too Expensive?
- pp. 96-110
- III: Finding New Models
- pp. 123-126
- 1: New Resources
- pp. 127-140
- 2: New Economic and Financial Models
- pp. 141-148
- 3: Helping More the Disadvantaged
- pp. 149-163
- Conclusion
- pp. 177-181
Additional Information
ISBN
9781584659907
Related ISBN(s)
9781584659877
MARC Record
OCLC
715191535
Pages
192
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No