| Description |
1 online resource (224 pages) : color illustrations, color maps |
| Series |
Critical environments: nature, science, and politics ; 12 |
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Critical environments (Oakland, Calif.) ; 12.
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| Contents |
Water production -- The soil problem -- The soil solution -- Bureaucratic ecology -- Livestock production -- Negative ecology |
| Summary |
"Landlocked and surrounded by South Africa on all sides, the mountain kingdom of Lesotho became the world's first "water-exporting country" when it signed a 1986 treaty with its powerful neighbor. An elaborate network of dams and tunnels now carries water to Johannesburg, the subcontinent's water-stressed economic epicenter. Hopes that receipts from water sales could improve Lesotho's fortunes, however, have clashed with fears that soil erosion from overgrazing livestock could fill its reservoirs with sediment. In this wide-ranging and deeply researched book, Colin Hoag shows how producing water commodities incites a fluvial imagination. Engineering water security for urban South Africa draws attention ever further into Lesotho's rural upstream catchments: from reservoirs to the soils and vegetation above them, and even to the social lives of herders at remote livestock posts. As we enter our planet's water-export era, Lesotho exposes the possibilities and perils ahead"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-209) and index |
| Notes |
In English |
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Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher |
| Subject |
Lesotho Highlands Water Project.
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| SUBJECT |
Lesotho Highlands Water Project. fast (OCoLC)fst00640861 |
| Subject |
Water transfer -- Lesotho
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Water resources development -- Environmental aspects -- Lesotho
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Water-supply -- Lesotho
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General.
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Water resources development -- Environmental aspects.
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Water-supply.
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Water transfer.
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Lesotho.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2022010686 |
| ISBN |
9780520386358 |
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0520386353 |
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