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Title
Water rights in Southeast Asia and India [electronic resource] / Ross Michael Pink.
ISBN
9781137504234 (electronic book)
1137504234 (electronic book)
9781349580422
9781137504227
Published
Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
Copyright
©2016
Language
English
Description
1 online resource.
Item Number
10.1057/9781137504234 doi
Call Number
KNC581 .P56 2016eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
346.504/32
Summary
This fascinating book examines the paramount human rights issue of our time: clean drinking water. Pollution, population surge, and climate change will deprive an estimated 2 billion citizens of this fundamental right by 2050. The author argues for the need to establish innovative, sustainable practices to safeguard this precious human right.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Description based on print version record.
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; One Myanmar: Resolving Water Insecurity and Poverty; Two Cambodia: A Rural Water Crisis; Three India: Drought, Climate Change, and Poverty; Four Indonesia: One of the Most Polluted Countries in the World; Five Laos: The Poorest Country in Asia; Six People's Republic of China: Confronting Catastrophic Drought and Pollution; Seven The Philippines: Devastated by Climate Change; Eight Thailand: A Struggle against Climate-Change Flooding.
Nine Vietnam: A Struggle against Climate-Change DroughtConclusion : Innovation and Water Security; Notes; Index.
