WATER AND DEVELOPMENT

Water is essential not merely for its most basic use of sustaining life, but also for a wide range of economic and social developmen t projects, including agriculture, industry, mining, power generation, and much more. Yet access to water, and the right to exploit, use, or buy and sell it, has been a contentious issue for yearswith particular force recently and in Africa.This book examines a w ide range of issues related to the question of water and development, gathering experts in numerous fields to explore such topics as governan...[Llegir més]