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Record Nr.

UNINA9910137457303321

Titolo

Troubled waters : confronting the water crisis in Australia's cities / / edited by Patrick Troy

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Canberra, Australia : , : ANU E Press, , [2008]

©2008

ISBN

9781921313844 (eBook)

9781921313837 (paperback)

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (217 pages) : illustrations, maps

Disciplina

363.610994

Soggetti

Water consumption - Australia

Water conservation - Australia

Water resources development - Australia

Dwellings - Australia - Energy consumption

Climatic changes - Australia

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Sommario/riassunto

"The traditional way water services have been provided has been to rely on predict and provide approaches that have given primacy to consideration of the supply of water services. This approach has been given a more economistic flavour in recent times. This book is designed to explore the nature of the demand for urban water services and how that has changed over the last century. It will discuss how the demand for centralised provision of urban water services might be re-shaped to enable urban areas to better cope with the water supplies that might be expected to change as the cities adjust to climate change."--Provided by publisher