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1. Re-thinking Water and Food Security

   Fourth Botin Foundation Water Workshop

   Edited by Luis Martinez-Cortina, Alberto Garrido, Elena Lopez-Gunn

   This book provides an overview, by leading world experts, on key issues in global water and food security. The book is divided in a series of over-arching themes and sections. The first part of the book provides an overview of water and food security. The second and third sections look at...

   Published September 29th 2010 by CRC Press
2. Water Crisis: Myth or Reality?

   Edited by Peter P. Rogers, M. Ramón Llamas, Luis Martinez Cortina

   Always considered a classic renewable resource, after a hundred thousand years of farming and industry, rivers in many parts of the world are running dry and the groundwater is over pumped. In addition, the rate at which water sources are becoming contaminated with waste from humans, industry, and...

   Published December 21st 2005 by Taylor & Francis
3. Groundwater Intensive Use

   IAH Selected Papers on Hydrogeology 7

   Edited by Andrés Sahuquillo, J. Capilla, Luis Martinez Cortina, X. Sanchez Vila

   Intensive use of groundwater has resolved the demand for drinking water and, through irrigation, has contributed to the eradication of malnourishment in many developing countries. The spectacular worldwide increase in groundwater use in the last decades, especially in arid and semi-arid regions,...

   Published June 29th 2005 by Taylor & Francis