The Watershed Moment: The New Story of Water Insecurity
暫譯: 水資源不安全的新故事：關鍵時刻
Ghanashyam, Aniket
- 出版商: Palgrave MacMillan
- 出版日期: 2025-10-02
- 售價: $1,660
- 貴賓價: 9.8 折 $1,626
- 語言: 英文
- 頁數: 167
- 裝訂: Hardcover - also called cloth, retail trade, or trade
- ISBN: 9819660823
- ISBN-13: 9789819660827
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This book attempts to highlight the vital role water has played in creating, consolidating, protecting, and preserving ancient and medieval global civilizations. It explains how the modern world has been addressing the issue of water insecurity and learning lessons from its acts of commission and omission. Water is a resource that nations have fought over, both domestically and internationally. The book lists selected water conflicts that have become severe and further exacerbated with populations growing rapidly and water demand rising exponentially while human beings continue to remain oblivious to the inevitable impending dangers of water insecurity.
It critically examines the disputes and conflicts over water resources in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia along with domestic disputes that have occurred in India. It also examines the methods our forefathers used to meet their water requirements. Ancient water harvesting methods and structures are explored, and their efficacy is evaluated.
This book serves as a reminder of the irrefutable fact that water is the world's most important resource and lists useful tips for investors and policymakers on water preservation. It can also serve as a guide to anyone interested in this subject and hoping to learn more about the past, present, and future scenarios of the world's most important resource.
商品描述(中文翻譯)
這本書試圖突顯水在創造、鞏固、保護和保存古代及中世紀全球文明中所扮演的重要角色。它解釋了現代世界如何應對水資源不安全的問題，並從其行為的委託和遺漏中學習教訓。水是一種各國在國內和國際上都曾為之爭奪的資源。書中列舉了一些水資源衝突，這些衝突因人口快速增長和水需求指數上升而變得更加嚴重，同時人類仍然對水資源不安全的不可避免的潛在危險視而不見。
本書批判性地檢視了中東、非洲和亞洲的水資源爭端與衝突，以及在印度發生的國內爭端。它還探討了我們的祖先用來滿足水需求的方法。書中深入研究了古代的水收集方法和結構，並評估其有效性。
這本書提醒我們水是世界上最重要的資源這一不容置疑的事實，並為投資者和政策制定者提供了有關水資源保護的實用建議。它也可以作為任何對此主題感興趣並希望了解世界上最重要資源的過去、現在和未來情境的人的指南。
作者簡介
Aniket Ghanshyam completed BSc in Environmental Science from Drexel University, USA and obtained MSc in Urban Water Management from the University of Cape Town, South Africa. He has spent almost a decade studying and working on water. He has provided water and environment related services/recommendations to Government of North Eastern Indian State of Meghalaya, Government of Nigeria as also Government of India. he has travelled in many countries of the world and has had the privilege of interacting with decisionmakers in several countries about water insecurity. He understands the political and economic constraints of investing in this sector and accords priority to solutions that are financially feasible, politically viable and culturally acceptable in addressing the issue of water scarcity. He has also worked for several government departments including the Department of Science and Technology, Ministry of Jal Shakti and currently working at the Waste to Wealth Mission which is spearhead by the Office of the Principal Scientific Adviser.
作者簡介(中文翻譯)
安尼凱特·甘尚在美國德雷克塞爾大學獲得環境科學學士學位，並在南非開普敦大學獲得城市水管理碩士學位。他在水資源領域學習和工作了近十年。他曾為印度東北部梅加拉亞邦政府、尼日利亞政府以及印度政府提供與水和環境相關的服務和建議。他曾遊歷多個國家，並有幸與多國的決策者就水資源不安全問題進行交流。他了解投資於此領域的政治和經濟限制，並優先考慮在解決水資源短缺問題時，財務可行、政治可行和文化可接受的解決方案。他還曾在多個政府部門工作，包括科學與技術部、灌溉部，目前在由首席科學顧問辦公室主導的廢物轉化為財富任務中工作。
