Why water politics matters -- Contested waters: the politics of supply -- Clean, green, and costly: water quality -- The water-energy-food nexus -- Drought, flood, and everything in-between -- Water rights and water wrongs -- International cooperation -- Water conflicts -- Tapping into toilets:...

From IWC to BWT: Canada-US Institution Building,1902-1909 / David Whorley -- Construction of a Keystone: How Local Concerns and International Geopolitics Created the First Water Management Mechanisms on the Canada-US Border / Meredith Denning -- The International Joint Commission and Water...

This broad review of the development of US water resource policy analysis and practice offers perspectives from several disciplines: law, economics, engineering, ecology and political science. The historical context provided goes back to the early 19th century, but the book concentrates on the...