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Lessons from the Ancients on Water Resources Sustainability

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At the beginning of this new millennium we have a water crisis which threatens human’s existence in many parts of the world. One might ask, how sustainable is it to live in a world where approximately 1.1 billion people lack safe drinking water, approximately 2.6 billion people lack adequate sanitation, and between 2 and 5 million people die annually from water-related diseases (Gleick, 2005)?

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Mays, L.W. (2010). Lessons from the Ancients on Water Resources Sustainability. In: Mays, L. (eds) Ancient Water Technologies. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-8632-7_11

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