| 书目名称 | Water Resources of North America | | 编辑 | Asit K. Biswas | | 视频video | | | 概述 | Describes status of water resource use and water conditions.Summarizes future water use and supply projections | | 图书封面 |  | | 描述 | Leonardo da Vinci, the eminent Renaissance scholar and philosopher said, "water is the driver of nature". Many may have considered it to be an overstatement in the past, but at the beginning of the third millennium, no sane individual would disagree with Leonardo‘s view. Water is becoming an increasingly scarce resource for most of the world‘s citizens. The current trends indicate that the overall situation is likely to deteriorate further, at least for the next two decades, unless the water profession eschews its existing "business as usual" practices, which can only allow incremental changes to occur. Somewhat surprisingly, the water profession as a whole neither realised nor appreciated the gravity of the global water situation as late as 1990, even though a few serious scholars have been pointing out the increasing criticality of the situation from around 1982. For example, the seriousness of the crisis was not a major issue, either at the International Conference on W ater and the Environment, which was organised by the UN system in Dublin and also at the UN Conference on Environment and Development at Rio de Janeiro. Held in 1992, both are considered to be important events fo | | 出版日期 | Book 2003 | | 关键词 | Generation; Groundwater; Institution; Water supply; health; organization; water; water availability; water m | | 版次 | 1 | | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-10868-0 | | isbn_softcover | 978-3-642-05550-8 | | isbn_ebook | 978-3-662-10868-0 | | copyright | Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2003 |
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