Water Policy for Sustainable Development, Hardcover by Feldman, David Lewis, ...

Water Policy for Sustainable Development, Hardcover by Feldman, David Lewis, ISBN 0801885884, ISBN-13 9780801885884, Brand New, Free P&P in the UKBy the year 2050 as many as seven billion of the world's people will face significant shortages of drinking water. Add to that concern the fact that development has so far tended to reduce access to potable water. Feldman (planning, policy and design, U. of California-Irvine) takes readers through the statistics and the causes for alarm along with a number of installations in which river-basin management has managed to sustain economic development while protecting the environment. Feldman examines the Delaware, Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint, Sacramento-San Joaquin and Columbia river basins to see what their managers are doing right and the lessons they have learned and proposes similar vigilance for other systems. He also evaluates the policies of the present and past and proposes methods for correcting the mistakes and damages caused by failed practices and policies. Annotation ©2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR ()