The Future of Water: A Startling Look Ahead - Hardcover

Maxwell, Steve

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1583218092 ISBN 13: 9781583218099

Publisher: Amer Water Works Assn, 2011

Synopsis

Around the world, water tables have dropped lower and lower as more straws are dipped into the finite number of water aquifers. With the challenges of population growth, dilapidated infrastructure, and polluted water, the solutions take on new complications. The authors present scenarios for the broad trends that will have a significant impact upon future water challenges population, economic growth, energy, climate change, and general demographic trends. Examine what might be in store for us and how individuals, water utilities, industries, and countries can change the future of water. With a Foreword by Bruce Babbit, the book discusses how water usage and storage must change in our homes, in agriculture and industry to deal with this crisis.

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Review

"Steve Maxwell takes us straight into the realities of the water crisis that is now spreading through all parts of the country, and indeed the entire world." -- Bruce Babbitt, Former US Secretary of the Interior "personal comment"

An excellent and somewhat startling book. Concise...with an amazing amount of information. -- Bernard P. Kryzs, President and Publisher "Water Utility Infrastructure Management"

Edition details

• Publisher: Amer Water Works Assn
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1583218092
• ISBN 13: 9781583218099
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 243