Atlas Set: The Atlas of Water: Mapping the World's Most Critical Resource (The Earthscan Atlas Series) (Volume 6) - Softcover

Maggie Black is a writer on international issues and the author of several books on water and sanitation. These include Water: A Matter of Life and Health (with Rupert Talbot), OUP and Unicef, New Delhi, 2004; Water, Life Force and The No-Nonsense Guide to Water, New Internationalist Publications, both 2005; and The Last Taboo: Opening the Door on the Global Sanitation Crisis (with Ben Fawcett), Earthscan 2008. Jannet King was co-author, with Robin Clarke, of the first edition of the atlas. She has spent many years researching and editing political and historical atlases, including the award-winning Atlas of Food, Atlas of Endangered Species,The State of the World Atlas, and the World Bank series of mini-Atlases on global development, the environment and human security.

'An indispensable guide to a vital issue.' Scientific and Medical Network Review 'Visually ingenious.' OXFAM Development Resources Review 'A very attractive and useful book...Highly recommended.' New Agriculturalist 'Provides a fascinating look at the state of water in our world and can be considered a must-read for anyone grappling with this complex topic.' The Sierra Club Green Life Blog 'I hope - if only in a small way - that I can encourage people to read and learn from this book. It is accessible to a wide range of readers from school children upwards and presents information and analysis in a clear and attractive 'atlas' format [and is] clearly of great value for researchers, practitioners such as myself, water policy makers and their advisers.' Mike Woolgar, Waterlines 'Attractively presented and easy to understand... all the maps an associated texts are interesting and pertinent.' HealthMatters 'An excellent handbook' The Economist 'I hope...that I can encourage people to read and learn from this book. It is accessible to a wide range of readers from school children upwards...the contents of the book are...all one could hope for.' Mike Woolgar, Waterlines, July 2010.