Last oasis : facing water scarcity /
Postel, Sandra.
Last oasis : facing water scarcity / Sandra Postel ; with a new introduction. - 1st ed. - New York : W.W. Norton, c1997. - xxxviii, 239 p. : ill. , map ; 21 cm. - The Worldwatch environmental alert series .
Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references.
Signs of scarcity -- Engineering's promise -- Bread and water -- Paradise lost -- Hydropolitics -- A world heating up -- Thrifty irrigation -- Small-scale solutions -- Wastewater no more -- Industrial recycling -- Conserving in cities -- Pricing, markets, and regulations -- A water ethic.
0393317447 (pbk.)
Water-supply.
Water conservation.
Water rights.
Last oasis : facing water scarcity / Sandra Postel ; with a new introduction. - 1st ed. - New York : W.W. Norton, c1997. - xxxviii, 239 p. : ill. , map ; 21 cm. - The Worldwatch environmental alert series .
Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references.
Signs of scarcity -- Engineering's promise -- Bread and water -- Paradise lost -- Hydropolitics -- A world heating up -- Thrifty irrigation -- Small-scale solutions -- Wastewater no more -- Industrial recycling -- Conserving in cities -- Pricing, markets, and regulations -- A water ethic.
0393317447 (pbk.)
Water-supply.
Water conservation.
Water rights.