The Water Manifesto
Subtitle: Arguments for a World Water Contract (Global Issues Series (Zed Books).)
Publisher: Zed Books
Published: October 5, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9781856499057
Subjects: Development economics; Development studies; Management of land & natural resources; Science; International cooperation; Business / Economics / Finance; Science/Mathematics; Water-supply; General; Real Estate - General; Science / General; Economic aspects; Political aspects; Water quality management
First sentence: The future for ourselves and our families - inhabitants of Brussels or Osaka as well as natives of Ecuador; Uzbeks, Tadziks and Turkmens of Central Asia as well as Americans of California - will depend less on technological and economic development than on the capacity of human societies to shape and administer certain rules, institutions and means of action that enable them to live together in an interdependent world with all its complexities and limitations, its diversity and its fragility.