Peter P. Rogers M. Ramon Llamas Luis Martinez-Cortina
Examining global water issues and how to solve them, Water Crisis: Myth or Reality challenges the premise that the planet is heading towards a global water crisis. It looks at the issues and tries to unravel which conditions are permanent and unchangeable and which are remediable and changeable. The book explores recent breakthroughs in desalination technologies, the eco-sanitation revolution, international trade in agricultural products, water allocation, and pricing and devolution of property rights and the roles they play in solving water issues. Taking a multidisciplinary point of view,...
Examining global water issues and how to solve them, Water Crisis: Myth or Reality challenges the premise that the planet is heading towards a global ...
Water policy in Spain has been a contentious issue for decade. This text provides readers with a comprehensive, detailed account of the history of water policy in Spain from the beginnings of the 20th century to the present day.
Water policy in Spain has been a contentious issue for decade. This text provides readers with a comprehensive, detailed account of the history of wat...
"The world water problems are a due to bad governance, not to physical water scarcity."
This book is inspired by this statement and explores whether it holds in a specific country, Spain, where climatic conditions - Spain is one of the most arid countries of the European Union - would fully justify saying that water problems are due to physical water scarcity. The metrification of water uses and their monetary value is a first important step in understanding how reallocation of water among users could help mitigating many of current water problems in Spain. However, water...
"The world water problems are a due to bad governance, not to physical water scarcity."
