The World's Water
 
Published every two years by Island Press, The World's Water provides both detailed analysis of the most significant trends and events and up-to-date data on water resources and their use. They are essential references for water resources specialists, resource economists, planners, students, and anyone concerned with water issues.

The World's Water: 2006-2007

The fifth volume in the highly regarded series, The World’s Water 2006-2007, is now available. Pacific Institute President and series editor Peter Gleick convened Pacific Institute staff and others in presenting the latest edition, covering some of the most significant current worldwide water issues: * water and terrorism, * preserving and restoring instream water allocations, * an update of seawater desalination, * the growing risks of floods and droughts, * environmental justice for water, * water risks facing industry, and * updated information on bottled water, international disputes over water, and the discovery of water on Mars.

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The World's Water: 2004-2005
 
In this fourth volume of his highly regarded series, Gleick and his research team focus on the most significant current trends worldwide: how to meet the basic needs of over 1 billion people without access to clean water, the growing controversy over public vs. private water, the role of conservation and efficiency in solving water problems, and concerns about skyrocketing bottled water use. Other chapters delve into a range of other critical topics -- from the economic value of water, to the unsustainable use of groundwater, to water policy and climate change. The Data Section of the book contains updated and new data on many critical water issues from the local to the global level.
 
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The World's Water: 2002-2003
 
The third volume of The World's Water is an effort to explore, understand, and solve a variety of critical water issues that include the global water crisis, global warming and water, privatization and globalization of water, and water-related conflicts. The central thrust of The World's Water 2002-2003 is that we must rethink the way we capture, distribute, and use water if we are to meet the challenges of increasing scarcity and growing populations. Other chapters cover the increasingly contentious debates over globalization and privatization of water, new measures of water well-being, the risks of climate change, and new information on dams and water.
 
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The World's Water: 2000-2001
 
The second volume of The World's Water contains new chapters on global water use projections, international river basins, the complex connections between water and food production, desalination, wastewater treatment and reuse, and the legal issues around a human right to water. As with the first volume, a large number of data tables are provided on a wide range of water-related issues, including water supply and demand, desalination capacity, reservoir construction, salinization of land, and updated numbers of endangered and threatened aquatic species.

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The World's Water: 1998-1999
 
The first volume of The World's Water (1998-1999) includes chapters on the changing global paradigm for water management and use, the environmental implications of large dams, possible consequences of climate change, and the links between water resources and conflict. The book also contains more than fifty charts, tables, and maps that present data on a range of topics including the availability and use of water, numbers of threatened and endangered species, dam and desalination capacity worldwide, and much more.

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PRAISE for The World's Water series:
 
"Anyone who cares deeply about the human need for water and the future of this planet should take careful note. Highly recommended."--Choice
 
"Essential for students of water -- whether environmentalists, educators, engineers -- or water policy planners in whatever capacity. A valuable contribution to the water literature as well as an important resource tool."--Environment
 
"There are few books that can genuinely be described as indispensable. This is one.... Essential reading."--Financial Times Global Water Report