Water
Reports from around the world
To the last drop: up-to-the-minute reports on the battle for control over the „blue gold”.
Far from being an inexhaustible resource, water is a limited commodity. While on one hand there are more than a billion people who have no access to clean drinking water, on the other the existence of some regions is critically threatened by a surplus in the form of flooding.
In this book, reporters from all over the world discuss one of the most contentious issues of our time – water: the political and military conflicts raging around it in the Philippines, for example; or how in the Netherlands it manifests itself as a threatening force of nature; how the polluted rivers of China constitute a major threat to public health; how the privatisation of the water supply in South Africa is embroiled in scandal. This is a thoroughly intriguing and thought-provoking reportage on a vital resource and one of the most highly charged issues of our time.
To the last drop: up-to-the-minute reports on the battle for control over the „blue gold”.
Far from being an inexhaustible resource, water is a limited commodity. While on one hand there are more than a billion people who have no access to clean drinking water, on the other the existence of some regions is critically threatened by a surplus in the form of flooding.
In this book, reporters from all over the world discuss one of the most contentious issues of our time – water: the political and military conflicts raging around it in the Philippines, for example; or how in the Netherlands it manifests itself as a threatening force of nature; how the polluted rivers of China constitute a major threat to public health; how the privatisation of the water supply in South Africa is embroiled in scandal. This is a thoroughly intriguing and thought-provoking reportage on a vital resource and one of the most highly charged issues of our time.
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