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The author argues that it is essential to manage water in different ways from those relied on in the last century. We must instead maintain the water cycle and the ecosystems that support it. Her book looks at the complexity of how to do this. And it provides a wide array of ideas, information, case studies and ecological knowledge - often from remote corners of the developing world - that could provide an alternative vision for water use and management at this critical time. After discussing how the water cycle works and the inadequacies of current approaches to overcoming the growing gap bet.

Water-supply --- Water use. --- Nature conservation. --- Hydrologic cycle. --- Management. --- Conservation of nature --- Nature --- Nature protection --- Protection of nature --- Use of water --- Utilization of water --- Water --- Water utilization --- Cycle, Hydrologic --- Hydrological cycle --- Water cycle --- Conservation --- Utilization --- Conservation of natural resources --- Applied ecology --- Conservation biology --- Endangered ecosystems --- Natural areas --- Cycles --- Hydrology --- Drought & water supply --- General ecology and biosociology --- Water supply. Water treatment. Water pollution --- natuurlijke grondstoffen