"Water exploitation has increased notably in the world during the last 250 years since the onset of industrialisation …. The relationships between economic processes and water use are complex and include many interwoven drivers such as …. Ensuring food, water, and energy for the growing population remains a common global challenge. Taking on a multi- and inter …

Introduction -- Investigating water 'scarcity' -- Access to water supply : achieving the Millennium Development Goal … -- Sharing water peacefully : understanding transboundary water-resource conflicts -- An analysis of a river dispute … : interaction of politics and economics -- Improving access to water : institutions, entitlements and inequality -- Consumer …

A multi-disciplinary analysis of the evolution of water politics and policy by an international team of distinguished … experts. Water management in the Middle Ages in Europe, its evolution in the USA, the elaboration of the European Water … Framework Directive, the British experience of water management, the over-exploitation of African aquifers, and the evolution of …