Dear Colleagues: Many of you in this group may enjoy my new book Reflections: Understanding our Use and Abuse of Water (OUP 2023).
Water is central to all life, but we use it to destroy. Water can nourish, but we use it to starve. It can cleanse and unify, but we ensure it contaminates and divides. The consequences of continuing to desecrate or beginning to restore water's inner grace are tremendous and will reflect as much on us as portend our future. Here I draw on my practical and research experience to try to explain the dissonance between the ideas many of us hold about water and what we actually do with it. I explore the extent to which water as commodity serves political, economic, or military (and often violent) ends. And how unchecked assumptions about water mix with political and economic systems to create an insatiable and ruinous thirst for ever more water. But we should worry not so much about "saving" water as consider what we do with it when it is in our hands. Available through OUP <https://global.oup.com/academic/product/reflections-9780197575123?cc=ch&lang=en&;> and other sellers<https://www.amazon.co.uk/Reflections-Understanding-Our-Abuse-Water-ebook/dp/B0BW12YD7W/ref=sr_1_2?keywords=mark+zeitoun&link_code=qs&qid=1677140212&sourceid=Mozilla-search&sr=8-2>… Thoughts welcome! Mark ------------- Mark Zeitoun Professor of Water Policy and Security, School of International Development, and UEA Water Security Research Centre University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK, NR4 7TJ www.uea.ac.uk/international-development/people/profile/m-zeitoun office: +44 (0)1603 593232 mobile: +44 (0)774 686 3892 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gep-ed" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to gep-ed+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/gep-ed/CWLP302MB0024C637E061972C131646C5A2B39%40CWLP302MB0024.GBRP302.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM.
