Water wrongs: why can't we get it right the first time?

From: Environmental Law | Date: January 1, 2004| Author: | Copyright information

Water policy has faltered throughout the ages. Our water decisions have often created more problems than they have resolved, leaving severe environmental and social disasters in their wake. In most cases, it is not that we did not know better. On the contrary, we have been making the same errors for thousands of years by replicating policies that failed societies both ancient and modern. But this destructive trend need not continue and can be reversed by integrating and accepting old knowledge and responding to new knowledge about the uncertainty and limits of water supply. It ...

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