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Letter from the Editors

Did You Know?

Understanding the Headlines

Maps

Water: A Framework for Understanding the Challenge [+]

Overview

The World’s Water Supply

  • The Water Cycle
  • Human Impacts on the Water Cycle
  • Freshwater

Water Consumption

  • Many Different Consumers
  • Population Growth
  • Where Population Growth is Concentrated

Water Supply and Consumption Out of Sync

  • Short-Term Implications
  • Long-Term Implications

Water and Human Development: The Millennium Development Goals

Water as a Human Right

  • International Human Rights Standards
  • Why a Human Rights-Based Approach to Water

Water, Health, and Nutrition [+]

Overview

Water for Drinking, Cooking, and Washing

  • Statistics: Who Has It, Who Doesn’t
  • Standards and Definitions: What is Acceptable?
  • Is Bottled Water a Solution?

Water for Sanitation

  • Statistics: Who Has It, Who Doesn’t
  • What It Takes

Water Pollution and Contamination

  • Human Costs
  • Financial Costs

Case Study: Cholera and the World’s Most Vulnerable Populations

Water for Agriculture and Nutrition

  • The Green Revolution
  • More Crop Per Drop
  • Current Trends

Water, Economics, and Trade [+]

Overview

Water as Key to Economic Development

  • Water in Consumption and Commerce
  • The Water-Energy Nexus

Water and Global Economics

  • Transportation of Goods
  • Virtual Water

Privatization of Water

  • History of Privatization
  • The Debate Over Privatization of Water
  • Case Study: Privatization of Water in Bolivia

Water and the Environment [+]

Overview

Feedback Loops: The Basic Problem

  • How Humans Directly Disrupt the Water Cycle
  • How Humans Indirectly Disrupt the Water Cycle: Climate Change

The World’s Oceans

The Environment as a Consumer

Case Study: The Three Gorges Dam

  • Background
  • The Three Gorges Dam

Water, Politics, and Conflict [+]

Overview

Sharing Water

  • Hydrologic Interdependence
  • Hot Spots for Water Tension
  • Water as a Vehicle for Peace

International Waterways and Global Trade

  • Shipping
  • The Impact of Climate Change

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