Global Water Crisis: A Joined-Up View From The City
Year: 2011
Type: article
Abstract: IntroductionWe divide the world into parts. And water is such a natural and prominent part of it all. So we have books threatening “When the Rivers Run Dry” (Pearce, 2006) or “The Big Thirst” (Fishman, 2011) and articles in the New Yorker imagining “The Last Drop” (Specter, 2006). This is the “Global Water Crisis” of which we hear so much: our global access to water for drinking and for agriculture, hence our food security, is threatened. The target endpoint of water supply has become the ve...
Authors: Bruce Beck, Rodrigo Villarroel Walker
Institution: University of Georgia
Language: English
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W16438896