The Global Water Crisis: A Reference Handbook

Part of ABC-CLIO’s Contemporary World Issues series, this work offers a broad overview of water-related problems faced throughout the world today. It deals with a selection of contemporary challenges and solutions to the complex set of problems characterised as a global water crisis.

The work introduces basic topics in encyclopedic entries of a couple of pages with each one containing a significant amount of cited references as well as further reading. A Perspectives section includes individually authored essays and case studies that attempt to reveal the complex nature of water issues. A Profiles section includes essays about notable individuals and...