Disputes over water allocations are, second to climate change, the dominant environmental and public policy issues of the present era. We are called upon to resolve such controversies using principles of sustainable development, which integrates ecology, economics, ethics. This timely book...

Intro -- Water Resources and Inter-Riparian Relations in the Nile Basin -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Toward a Provisional Understanding -- Framing the Challenges -- The Demographic Challenge -- The Economic Challenge -- The Hydrological and Ecological Challenge -- Urbanization,...

The Yellow River basin, located in the semi-arid and arid climate zones in northern China, is confronted with serious problems of water deficit as well as water pollution. Due to increasing population, rising living standards, increasing pressure of expanding irrigation areas and developing...