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Water Under Threat
Larbi Bouguerra
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Description for Water Under Threat
Paperback. Presents an exploration of the key social, political, and ethical issues in global water use. This title shows that the ways in which water is used and managed raise central issues about our lifestyle, our ethics, and our relationship to nature and the biosphere. It makes the case for a society that is economical with water. Translator(s): Camiller, Patrick. Series: Global Issues. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: RNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 200 x 126 x 13. Weight in Grams: 242.
Water has been described as 'the oil of the 21st century' with rapid population growth, climate change and pollution conspiring to make it the resource over which wars may be fought in years to come. But does water have a price? Is it a right or a need? Increasingly, water is viewed as a commodity whose function is to generate profits. In this book, Larbi Bouguerra argues that instead we should view it as a common good of humanity. Water has an exceptional cross-cultural symbolic value and its use raises enormous questions about our lifestyle, our ... Read more
Water has been described as 'the oil of the 21st century' with rapid population growth, climate change and pollution conspiring to make it the resource over which wars may be fought in years to come. But does water have a price? Is it a right or a need? Increasingly, water is viewed as a commodity whose function is to generate profits. In this book, Larbi Bouguerra argues that instead we should view it as a common good of humanity. Water has an exceptional cross-cultural symbolic value and its use raises enormous questions about our lifestyle, our ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Zed Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
Series
Global Issues
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781842777053
SKU
V9781842777053
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99-50
About Larbi Bouguerra
Mohamed Larbi Bouguerra works at the Alliance for a Responsible, Plural and United World, where he is in charge of the Water Programme. He was previously Professor of Science at Tunis University, and Associate Director of Research at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS).
Reviews for Water Under Threat
'Making one car consumes 400,000 litres of water; in Brazil, 22 glasses of water are needed to produce one glass of orange juice. Alongside such profligacy, 6,000 children die each day for lack of clean water. The book speaks powerfully of the need to address such inequalities and to relearn what our ancestors knew: that "the water cycle ties us ... Read more