Climate change, population increase, and the demands made by the growing number of people adopting urban lifestyles and western dietsthreaten the world s supply of freshwater, edging us closer to a globalwatercrisis, with dire implications for agriculture, the economy, the environment, and human health. Completely revised and updated, TheAtlasofWateris a compelling visual guide to the state of this life-sustaining resource. Using vivid graphics, maps, and charts, it explores the complex human interaction withwateraroundthe world. This vibrantatlasaddresses all the pressing issues...

Niel Black, a Scot from Argyllshire, arrived in Melbourne in September intending to make his fortune. Ambitious and determined, Black became one of the most successful and energetic squatters in the Western District of Victoria a livestock breeder and a Member of the Legislative Council. He was also a correspondent extraordinaire, and his letters to family, fellow pastoralists, colonial officials, and his chief UK business partner, Thomas Steuart Gladstone (and first cousin of the British prime minister), offer a unique insight into the time. Black s letters and journals, now held at the...