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The world's population is increasing; but its supply of water is not. Empires have grown and declined due to discovery and exhaustion of their water sources and now the West is at last catching on to the fact that abundance of water can no longer be taken for granted. For the last fifty years wars have been fought over oil; for the next fifty they may be fought over water (in fact some local wars already have been). Remarkably this new book is the first to bring together the ecological geographical political and scientific aspects of water. Its author Professor Paul Younger is one of the UK's leading experts on water - a substance of which we consume 150 litres of a day and in its bottled form are willing to pay more for than for petrol.
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The world's population is increasing; but its supply of water is not. Empires have grown & declined due to discovery & exhaustion of their water sources & now the West is at last catching on to the fact that abundance of water can no longer be taken for granted. For the last fifty years wars have been fought over oil; for the next fifty they may be fought over water (in fact some local wars already have been). Remarkably this new book is the first to bring together the ecological geographical political & scientific aspects of water. Its author Professor Paul Younger is one of the UK's leading experts on water
- a substance of which we consume 150 litres of a day & in its bottled form are willing to pay more for than for petrol.

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