Throughout the ages, people have experienced the life-giving and healing forces in water. Water is integral to life, and surrounds us in nature and in our own bodies. But not all water is the same. Water can carry good energies, and bad energies. How can we understand water enough to know the difference? Theodor Schwenk, the renowned author of ......
Water stress is set to become Asia's defining crisis of the twenty-first century, creating obstacles to continued rapid economic growth, stoking interstate tensions over shared resources, exacerbating long-time territorial disputes, and imposing further hardships on the poor. This title deals with this topic.
Water, Development, and the Global Spread of American Environmental Expertise
Focusing on globalization in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Jessica Teisch examines the processes by which American water and mining engineers who rose to prominence during and after the California Gold Rush of 1849 exported the United States' growing technical and environmental knowledge and associated social and political ......
This report addresses the escalating global water crisis characterized by continental drying ? the long-term decline in freshwater availability across large landmasses, highlighting trends, causes and impacts on jobs, the economy, and the planet.
Land, air, and water have long supported human progress. But today these essential resources are under growing pressure, putting development and well-being at risk. This report shares new data and practical solutions to help countries grow in ways that protect nature and build a healthier, more secure, and more livable future.
Water, Oranges, and Race in the Gamtoos Valley of South Africa, 1700-2023
This study of the Gamtoos River floodplain in South Africa's Eastern Cape Province traces its transformation from an eighteenth-century natural landscape of thick bush into an agricultural zone now threatened by climate change. The first half of the book explains how missionaries from the London Missionary Society and residents of the Hankey ......
Water, Oranges, and Race in the Gamtoos Valley of South Africa, 1700-2023
This study of the Gamtoos River floodplain in South Africa's Eastern Cape Province traces its transformation from an eighteenth-century natural landscape of thick bush into an agricultural zone now threatened by climate change. The first half of the book explains how missionaries from the London Missionary Society and residents of the Hankey ......
This report aims to introduce a novel way of positioning water as an engine for growth and equity by highlighting the deep associations between water and inclusive growth.
As the population of the greater Las Vegas area grows and the climate warms, the threat of a water shortage looms over southern Nevada. But as Christian S. Harrison demonstrates in All the Water the Law Allows, the threat of shortage arises not from the local environment but from the American legal system, specifically the Law of the River that ......
