Chapter 1: The Water Challenges Facing the World

Abstract: Global water-related challenges are numerous and continually evolving. They include water scarcity, wastewater pollution, chemical contaminants in the water environment, aging infrastructure, demographic changes, and over-abstraction of resources. The global water crisis has many dimensions to it but can broadly be thought of in terms of (a) scarcity, (b) manageability, (c)...