- Title
- How to think about water for people and people for water: Some for all, forever
- Creator
- Palmer, Carolyn G
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date
- 2018
- Type
- text
- Type
- report
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/437922
- Identifier
- vital:73422
- Identifier
- ISBN 978-1 4312-0985-9
- Identifier
- https://wrcwebsite.azurewebsites.net/wp-content/uploads/mdocs/SP%20117-18%20web.pdf
- Description
- Water for people and people for water. We need water and water needs us. That is what this book is about. Water is the basis of all life. No plant, animal or person on earth can survive without it. In fact, all organisms are mostly made up of water. Wa-ter shapes the earth’s surface. It is a fundamental part of climate processes. Out in the natural world, water is not found in taps, buckets and glasses but in rivers, wet-lands, lakes, dams, estuaries, groundwater and the sea. It falls from the sky as rain, runs off the landscape, filters into the soil, flows to the sea in rivers, is stored in dams, evaporates into the sky, and rains back onto the earth. This is the water cycle. People need water for all sorts of things, for drinking, washing, cooking, growing food, in industries, and to dilute and transport wastes. But in the process of using water, people can damage rivers, wetlands, lakes and other watery places. Dam-aged ecosystems do not work very well and may fail us when we need them most. The message of this book is – look after water in the places where it is naturally found – look after water and water ecosystems because you need them so much.
- Format
- 56 pages, pdf
- Publisher
- Water Research Commission
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Palmer, CG, (2018) How to think about water for people and people for water: Some for all, forever. WRC Report. Water Research Commission, Pretoria, South Africa
- Rights
- Publisher
- Rights
- Use of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the Water Research Commission Terms and Conditions of Use Statement (https://www.gov.za/terms-and-conditions-use-0)
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