International Water Resources Management : Challenges, Crises and People/Sheela Sanghvi. New Delhi, Dominant Pub., 2007, vi, 308 p., ISBN 81-7888-476-3.

    Contents: Preface. 1. Towards securing the world water reserves. 2. Water and climate. 3. The degradation of land and water. 4. Living with water scarcity. 5. Water and development. 6. State of water and International conflicts. 7. Focusing in some hightech solutions. 8. Focusing on some traditional solutions. 9. Giving new twists to older solutions. 10. Facing bravely the water scarcity. 11. Regulating the community water needs. 12. Understanding the world water crisis. 13. The creeping environmental problems. 14. Central Asia and global water perspective. 15. Interesting studies for international communities. 16. Hydrographical study of the region. 17. Concepts, cost and processing of the ideas. 

    "Many countries now have water problems that they have never encountered before. They are squeezed between responding to land and water degradation caused by past mismanagement and the need to provide life support for growing populations.

    Attempts to handle the crises have suffered form lack of co-ordination, inefficient legislation and enforcement--and a large measure of ignorance about our planet's dependence on water.

    The dilemma is quite clear: In spite of its renewability, water is becoming increasingly scarce. Less than one percent of the globe's water resources is usable fresh water. And as the world population grows and countries develop, so does the  demand. Huge amounts are needed to meet escalating food requirements as well as for quenching the thirsts of future generations.

    The book attempts to underline all the issues affecting world water resources and suggests what may be done on governmental and community basis to save this most precious life ingredient and its resources." (jacket) 

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