Water Wars

Updated with new material. Every day we hear alarming news about droughts pollution population growth and climate changewhich threaten to make water even more than oil the cause of war within our lifetime. Diane Raines Ward reaches beyond the headlines to illuminate our most vexing problems and tells the stories of those working to solve them: hydrologists politicians engineers and everyday people. Based on ten years of research spanning five continents Water Wars offers fresh insight into a subject to which our fate is inextricably bound.