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Reflections : Understanding Our Use and Abuse of Water / Mark Zeitoun.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Zeitoun, Mark, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Water rights.
- Water-supply.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (134 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2023]
- 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.
- 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
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 117-124) and index.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Zeitoun, Mark Reflections
- ISBN:
- 0-19-757515-3
- 0-19-757513-7
- 0-19-757514-5
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