The World’s Water 2004-2005: The
Biennial Report on Freshwater Resources
Edited
by Peter Gleick
320 pages, softcover $35.
Island Press, 2004.
The fourth installment of this annual
report covers water issues that span the globe. Gleick —
president of the Pacific Institute for Studies in Development,
Environment, and Security — and other water brainiacs
contemplate climate change and water in California, urban water
conservation, and Third World groundwater development, which offers
farmers a path beyond subsistence, but poses huge management and
sustainability challenges.
This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline The World’s Water 2004-2005: The Biennial Report on Freshwater Resources.
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