Water Management: Some Personal Reflections

In recent years, books, papers and media coverage of the global water crisis due to physical scarcities of water have become a growth industry. Is this widely accepted hypothesis correct? It is argued in this paper that the world is not facing a water crisis because of physical scarcities of water, as people with linear and compartmentalized thinking are forecasting, but is facing a crisis because of the inefficient way water has been managed in the past and is being managed in nearly all countries of the world.

By Asit K. Biswas, 2009. Article published in Water International, Volume 34, Issue 4, pages 402-408. DOI: 10.1080/02508060903396189

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