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WATER RESOURCES: For Our Thirsty World, Efficiency or Else
Sandra L. Postel
When the Rivers Run Dry
Water--The Defining Crisis of the Twenty-First Century Fred Pearce
Beacon Press, Boston, 2006. 336 pp. $26.95. ISBN 0-8070-8572-3.
Weaving together scientific, economic, and historical aspects of water resources, the author argues that the solution to the growing worldwide shortage of water lies in greater efficiency and new ethics of use.
The reviewer is at the Global Water Policy Project, 107 Larkspur Drive, Amherst, MA 01002-3440, USA. E-mail: spostel{at}globalwaterpolicy.org
