Completely updated, the new edition of this groundbreaking atlas maps the competing claims on limited water supplies - made by farmers, industrialists and householders - and investigates the uses and abuses of the resource, as well as the vexed question of how it can be equitably managed.

Completely updated, the new edition of this groundbreaking atlas maps the competing claims on limited water supplies - made by farmers, industrialists and householders - and investigates the uses and abuses of the resource, as well as the vexed question of how it can be equitably managed.