Harnessing the productive potential of water and limiting its destructive impacts have challenged the human species since its origins. Many of the earliest civilizations, particularly those on the floodplains of the world's major rivers, succeeded by harnessing water, often in nation-building efforts that spawned great civilizations. But water is also a force for destruction, catastrophically through drought, flood, landslides, and epidemic, and progressively...
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Sink or swim : toward water security for all (English). Water P-Notes ; no. 7 Washington, DC: World Bank. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/560281468138573494