Health and safety is important to everyone nowadays, especially with the burgeoning extent of legislation and regulations in the area both in UK terms but perhaps more importantly within and across the European Community. One of the industries most affected by this is the building and construction sector, which because of its traditionally poor record in this respect and its widespread and under-policed activities is now subject to the Construction, Design and Management (CDM) regulations. These require that every project involving building or demolition work which is undertaken, regardless...

International tensions around water are rising in many of the world's most volatile regions. The policy recipe pursued by the West, and imposed on governments elsewhere, is to pass control over water to private interests, which simply accelerates the cycle of inequality and deprivation. California, as well as China, South Africa, Mexico and countries on every continent already face a crisis. This book exposes the enormity of the problem, the dangers of the proposed solution and the alternative, which is to recognize access to water as a fundamental human right, not dependent on ability to...

Global water consumption is doubling every 20 years, much faster than population growth. Water supplies, such as the huge Ogallala aquifer under the American mid-west, on which the country's grain basket depends, are drying up or being polluted, and international tensions around water are rising inexorably in many of the world's most volatile regions.