Just Add Water: Solving the World's Problems Using its Most Precious Resource

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Rhett B. Larson (Richard Morrison Fellow of Water Law, Richard Morrison Fellow of Water Law, Arizona State University Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law)

Just Add Water

Solving the World's Problems Using its Most Precious Resource

Rhett B. Larson (Richard Morrison Fellow of Water Law, Richard Morrison Fellow of Water Law, Arizona State University Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law)

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Oxford University Press Inc
27 May 2020

"Scientists have long been searching for a unified field theory--one answer to all of the questions about the physical universe. In this book, Rhett Larson takes a similar approach to social policy questions. What if we could find a unified social policy theory--the answer to every question from how to prevent war to how to promote gender equality? Most of our most serious global challenges are complex, multi-faceted ""wicked problems."" But perhaps the first step in solving wicked problems as seemingly distinct as racism and disease epidemics is the same: reform our laws, policies, and priorities to achieve global water security. Global water security means reasonable access for all people to water of acceptable quantity and quality with acceptable costs and risks. Just as the essential element to all life is water, so water is the essential element to solving life's challenges. Virtually every major social challenge--including gender inequality, racial discrimination, terrorism, space exploration, global disease epidemics, mass migrations, and climate change--has a significant and underappreciated water component. Each chapter of this book takes up one of these wicked problems, illustrates the role water plays in that problem, and proposes reforms to address the water aspect of that problem, with the aim of achieving global water security. The goal of this this book is to convince the reader that the answer, or at least one part of the answer, to our most serious problems is the oft-repeated catchphrase: ""Just add water."""

By: Rhett B. Larson (Richard Morrison Fellow of Water Law Richard Morrison Fellow of Water Law Arizona State University Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law)
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 155mm, Width: 236mm, Spine: 23mm
Weight: 599g
ISBN: 9780190948009
ISBN 10: 0190948000
Pages: 300
Publication Date: 27 May 2020
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Acknowledgements Foreword Introduction Chapter 1. Water Security & Climate Change Chapter 2. Water Security & Public Health Chapter 3. Water Security & Human Rights Chapter 4. Water Security & Racial Discrimination Chapter 5. Water Security & Gender Inequality Chapter 6. Water Security & Armed Conflict Chapter 7. Water Security & Mass Migration Chapter 8. Water Security & Technological Innovation Conclusion Bibliography

Rhett B. Larson is the Richard Morrison Fellow of Water Law at Arizona State University's Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law.

Reviews for Just Add Water: Solving the World's Problems Using its Most Precious Resource

Larson believes that achieving global water security could hold the key to a wide range of contemporary problems, including inequality, discrimination, terrorism, epidemics and climate change. Each of these problems has a 'significant and underap-preciated water component', he says. * Survival: Global Politics and Strategy *