The Middle East Water Question
Subtitle: Hydropolitics and the Global Economy (International Library of Human Geography)
Publisher: I. B. Tauris
Published: May 11, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781860645822
Subjects: Economic geography; Hydrology (freshwater); Management of land & natural resources; Political geography; Water Supply; Nature/Ecology; Water And Marine Resources Management; Water rights; Nature; Politics / Current Events; Middle East; Political aspects; Economic Conditions; International Relations - Treaties; History / Middle East; Water-supply; Water resources development; International Relations - General; Natural Resources
First sentence: It is a paradox that the water pessimists are wrong but their pessimism is a very useful political tool which can help the innovator to shift the eternally interdependent belief systems of the public and their politicians.