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Fairbridge 1990
, 1990: Water deficiency versus water excess: Global management potential. In Greenhouse Effect, Sea Level and Drought. R. Paepe, R.W. Fairbridge, and S. Jelgersma, Eds., NATO ASI Series C: Mathematical and Physical Sciences, vol. 325, Springer Netherlands, pp. 185-197, doi:10.1007/978-94-009-0701-0_11.
The availability of water, in liquid form, is one of the essential metabolic requirements for almost all forms of life, from the simplest unicelled organism up to the human race. Unlike other creatures, however, human being have the intellectual capacity to utilize far more water than is required for mere survival, and dedicates this excess to various purposes relating to such things as personal comforts (e.g. air conditioning), hygiene (e.g. washing, bathing), industrial processes (e.g. paper manufacture, food preparation, mining operations, petrochemicals), agriculture (e.g. irrigation and livestock watering), and hydropower (e.g. electricity production).
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@inproceedings{fa03200x,
author={Fairbridge, R. W.},
editor={Paepe, R. and Fairbridge, R. W. and Jelgersma, S.},
title={Water deficiency versus water excess: Global management potential},
booktitle={Greenhouse Effect, Sea Level and Drought},
year={1990},
volume={325},
pages={185--197},
publisher={Springer Netherlands},
address={Dordrecht},
series={NATO ASI Series C: Mathematical and Physical Sciences},
doi={10.1007/978-94-009-0701-0_11},
}
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TY - CPAPER ID - fa03200x AU - Fairbridge, R. W. ED - Paepe, R. ED - Fairbridge, R. W. ED - Jelgersma, S. PY - 1990 TI - Water deficiency versus water excess: Global management potential BT - Greenhouse Effect, Sea Level and Drought T3 - NATO ASI Series C: Mathematical and Physical Sciences VL - 325 SP - 185 EP - 197 DO - 10.1007/978-94-009-0701-0_11 PB - Springer Netherlands CY - Dordrecht ER -
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