| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Beneath the Surface -- 1. Misunderstood Water -- Water cycles -- Water problems are local -- Scarcity is constructed -- Rain is commodified -- 2. Insatiable Thirst -- The mission -- Hydraulic societies -- The supply -- The infrastructure -- Lubricating colonisation -- The thirst -- Water for the wealthy -- From crops per drop to dollars per drop -- Desert bloom syndrome -- Not solutions -- Shade balls -- Desalting the sea to bloom the desert -- Sugar water -- Bottled water -- 3. Killer Water |
|
Everlasting conflict -- A tool of war -- Hunting thirsty gazelles -- Clearing the killing fields -- Ethnic cleansing -- A target of war -- Cumulative impact -- Spreading disease -- Toxic biospheres of war -- The Rules of War -- 4. Hostile Waters -- Why we don't wage war over water -- Why we don't wage peace over water -- Confusing correlation with causation -- Lazy thinking about 'cooperation' -- Why we do fight over water -- Hoarding on the Tigris and Euphrates -- Hoarding on the Nile -- Hoarding on the Jordan -- The rules for sharing water -- Conclusion: Water Whilst It Is in Our Hands |
| Summary |
Reflections draws on author Mark Zeitoun's decades of experience teaching and communicating complex water issues, and replaces widely held myths with new concepts from around the globe. He brings attention to the dissonance between how we view and feel about water and what we do with it, calling upon readers to develop an informed ethos of water that reflects the restorative nature of this essential resource |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from home page (Oxford Academic, viewed January 29, 2024) |
| Subject |
Water-supply.
|
|
Water rights.
|
|
Water rights
|
|
Water-supply
|
|
Economics.
|
|
Environment and Ecology.
|
| Form |
Electronic book
|
| ISBN |
0197575145 |
|
9780197575154 |
|
0197575153 |
|
9780197575130 |
|
0197575137 |
|
9780197575147 |
|
