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The State of the World's Water
By Maggie Black
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Completely updated, the new edition of this groundbreaking atlas maps the competing claims on limited water supplies made by farmers, industrialists and householders and investigates the uses and abuses of the resource, as well as the vexed question of how it can be equitably managed.
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Maggie Black
Maggie Black has written on international issues for UNICEF WaterAid and the Global Water Partnership, among others. Her books include Water: A Matter of Life and Health (with Rupert Talbot), Water Life Force, the No-Nonsense Guide to Water, and The Last Taboo: Opening the Door on the Global Sanitation Crisis (with Ben Fawcett).
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