Hydropolitics : conflicts over water as a development constraint / edited by Leif Ohlsson

Some two dozen countries are already classified as water-scarce, and this - as areas as diverse as Israel, southern California and even the Netherlands know - is not a problem confined to the South. Already, as this book shows, fresh-water shortages are becoming a major cause of conflict both domestically and between states. In the future, the growing world population will all make increasing demands on scarce water resources. Conflict resolution capabilities in many parts of the world will be sorely stretched. Written by scholars from a wide range of disciplines -hydrology, international relations, development studies, conflict resolution and anthropology.