Running Out of Water The Looming Crisis and Solutions to Conserve Our Most Precious Resource

About this book

While many believe that water is a renewable resource that will never go away, the truth is the availability of this essential element is delining. Global warming creates moonscapes where there were once snow packed mountains. Population growth has pushed demand straining our current supply almost ensuring that water will become as coveted as oil in the 21st century.

As the supply of this precious resource declines, there are critical questions to answer: Can we learn to conserve? Can we find ways to renew this resource? Do we have the political will to act wisely before it is too late?

Through the use of case studies or success stories, the authors explain in accessible terms the water world with all its scientific, economic and political complications. With these success stories, they provide a prescription to address this crisis and manage future needs.

Contents

Turn the Tap and Out Comes the Water
Making it Last: Using Technology to Recycle Water
Taming the Big User: Improving Agricultural Efficiency
Wanted: Our Involvement
Valuing an Extremely Complicated Resource Leads to Wise Use Waste Not Want Not
Trans-Boundary Rivers Water that Lasts a Thousand Years: Bottled Water
Conclusion: So, Now What

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Biography

PETER ROGERS is a leading water expert and Professor of Environmental Engineering at Harvard University, USA and a Senior Advisor to the Global Water Partnership. SUSAN LEAL is the former General Manager of the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, USA. While running this large water and power utility, she established the first Climate Change consortium of U.S. water utilities.