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Water Deficiency Versus Water Excess: Global Management Potential

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The availability of water, in liquid form, is one of the essential metabolic requirements for almost all forms of life, from the simplest unicelled organism up to the human race. Unlike other creatures, however, human being have the intellectual capacity to utilize far more water than is required for mere survival, and dedicates this excess to various purposes relating to such things as personal comforts (e.g. air conditioning), hygiene (e.g. washing, bathing), industrial processes (e.g. paper manufacture, food preparation, mining operations, petrochemicals), agriculture (e.g. irrigation and livestock watering), and hydropower (e.g. electricity production).

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  1. Earth Technology Institute, Vrije Universiteit Brussel and Belgian Geological Survey, Brussels, Belgium

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    Rhodes W. Fairbridge

  3. Geological Survey of the Netherlands, Haarlem, The Netherlands

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Fairbridge, R.W. (1990). Water Deficiency Versus Water Excess: Global Management Potential. In: Paepe, R., Fairbridge, R.W., Jelgersma, S. (eds) Greenhouse Effect, Sea Level and Drought. NATO ASI Series, vol 325. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-0701-0_11

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