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An Overview of the State of the World’s Fresh and Marine Waters - 2nd Edition - 2008

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  • Toward a world of thirst ?

  • Foreword

  • Executive summary

  • Water and population

  • Chapter 1

  • State of the world’s water

Chapter 2

  • Freshwater resources

    • Storage, distribution and circulation

    • Water use and management

    • A scarce and competitive resource

    • Water management in urban area

    • River’s fragmentation

    • Pollution

    • Biodiversity in freshwater

    • Water and political conflicts

    • Water and health

    • Pricing water

    Chapter 3

  • Coastal and marine water

    • Marine biodiversity

    • Economic activities: Fisheries and ecotourism

    • Coastal pollution

    Chapter 4

  • Water and climate change

  • Links

  • References


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    Links


    - Pacific Institute : information on the world’s freshwater resources
    - Chronology of water conflicts - Pacific Institute
    - Marc Laimé’s blog : Carnets d’eau
    - Office international de l’eau
    - Aquastat - FAO
    - OpenDemocracy : A global thirst: water, power and the poor
    - OpenDemocracy : Vanishing shorelines, Hunting Down Water in India
    - OpenDemocracy : Kazakhstan: glaciers and geopolitics
    - Eau secours !
    - H2O.net
    - Transboundary freshwater dispute database
    - Planète bleue info
    - International rivers : people, water, life
    - Association suisse pour le contrat mondial sur l’eau (ACME)
    - Unesco : Bulletin d’information du portail de l’eau n° 112 (l’eau et la paix)
    - Unesco : World water resources in the XXIe century Prepared for UNESCO by Igor A. Shiklomanov, Scientific Leader and Editor, professor at the State Hydrological Institute (SHI), Saint Petersburg, Russia.

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