Liquid Asset: How Business and Government Can Partner to Solve the Freshwater Crisis

by Barton H. Thompson Jr.

Governments dominated water management throughout the 20th century. Tasked with ensuring a public supply of clean, safe, reliable, and affordable water, governmental agencies controlled water administration in most of the world. They built the dams, reservoirs, and aqueducts to store water when available and move that water to areas with increasing populations and economies. Private businesses sometimes played a part in managing water, but typically...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1503632415
• ISBN13: 9781503632417
• Release Date: November 2023
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.1"