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The world faces enormous water challenges as population continues to grow, with emerging economies and climate change evolving from the global and local water cycle. There are key questions to…

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The world faces enormous water challenges as population continues to grow, with emerging economies and climate change evolving from the global and local water cycle. There are key questions to be answered on how to provide us with water in a sustainable and secure way to meet our needs, while at the same time protecting vulnerable ecosystems.

Water Resources: The integrated curriculum provides students with an overview of both the natural, social and economic processes associated with water. The book contains chapters written by 20 specialized contributors, providing depth to the experts in covering topics. The reader's text guides the water theme from its unique characteristics and moves through environmental processes and human impacts on them including the changing water cycle, water movement in river basins, water quality, groundwater and aquatic ecosystems.

The book covers management strategies for water resources, water treatment and reuse, and the role of water in human health before covering the water economy and water conflict. The text concludes with a chapter that studies new concepts such as virtual water that help us understand the use of current and future water resources and their availability through interconnected local and global scales.

This book offers a new multidisciplinary approach to water in a changing world, from the perspective of environmental change and the interrelated social, political and economic dimensions. It includes global examples from both the developing and the developed world.

Each chapter is supplemented with boxed case studies, end-of-chapter questions, further reading, and a glossary of terms. The text is richly illustrated with more than 150 full color graphics and images..



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