Examines the many ways water has contributed to power structures in the past, with insights for contemporary water management. Water, an essential resource in a
Water is an endangered resource, imperiled by population growth, mega-urbanization, and climate change. Scientists project that by 2050, freshwater shortages wi
Today our societies face great challenges with water, in terms of both quantity and quality, but many of these challenges have already existed in the past. Focu
Water played an important part of ancient Roman life, from providing necessary drinking water, supplying bath complexes, to flowing in large-scale public founta
Why has the American South--a place with abundant rainfall--become embroiled in intrastate wars over water? Why did unpredictable flooding come to characterize