Reflections

Understanding Our Use and Abuse of Water

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

AvMark Zeitoun,University of East Anglia) Zeitoun, Mark (Professor of Water Security and Policy in the School of International Development, Professor of Water Security and Policy in the School of International Development

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Water is central to all life, but we use it to destroy. Water can nourish, but we use it to starve. It can cleanse and unify, but we ensure it contaminates and divides. The consequences of continuing to desecrate or beginning to restore water's inner grace are tremendous—and will reflect as much on us as portend our future. Drawing upon twenty-five years of professional work as a water engineer, negotiator, and scholar, Mark Zeitoun provides a unique insider's account of this phenomenon. He explains how unchecked assumptions about water mix with political and economic systems to create an insatiable and ruinous thirst for ever more water. He shows how we use water to lethal effect in wars, and demolish drinking-water systems with wanton disregard. He questions why we transform the most majestic of rivers into canals which spark international conflict and challenge our capacity for preventative diplomacy. The answers reflect more about our society than we might care to admit.If we are to restore water's inner grace, Zeitoun argues, we should worry not so much about "saving" water, but think about what we do with it when it is in our hands.

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Utgivningsdatum2023-05-03
Mått237 x 162 x 14 mm
Vikt349 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor132
FörlagOUP USA
ISBN9780197575123

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Dr. Mark Zeitoun's research focuses on international transboundary water conflict and cooperation, the influence of armed conflict on water services, and the links between water and health. This stems from his work as a humanitarian-aid water engineer, and advisor on water security policy and transboundary water negotiations throughout the Middle East and Africa. He studied engineering at McGill University in Montreal and human geography at King's College London.

In Reflections Mark Zeitoun journeys from the beautiful to the barbaric - from sunlit pools to wells stuffed with corpses - and in the process reveals water as a mirror to the modern world and its terrible pathologies. Combining the practical insights of an engineer with the sensitivities of a philosopher and the anger of a concerned global citizen, this is a lucid, astute and poignant set of reflections. Highly recommended.

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