Water Resources : Strategic Overview For Global Sustainability

It is difficult to perceive of life without water. Hence the availability of water, in right quantity and quality, is essential for the survival of human civilization. Oceans represent ninety seven percent of total water on earth, but the seawater is not directly usable. The balance three percent consists of freshwater, but again most of it is frozen ice in the arctic poles or in the glaciers on the mountain. Only three percent of total freshwater that flows in the rivers, lakes, and swamps are available to human use.
Water being so vital for life to grow food, to run industries and to save the environment, the sustainability of water resources must be reviewed and strategised with a global overview. Thus, the concern for water is now very widely shared among all nations of the world in the impending scenario of global warming. Hence, the readership should likely be distributed among the environmental activists to the national and international policy makers, including all enlightened citizenry of the world. Universities, research institutions and socially-inspired NGOs and students at graduate and undergaduate levels will find much food for thoughts in this strategic review of global water resources.
Prof. M.K. Ghosh Roy earned a B.Tech. (Hons) in Naval Architecture from lIT, Kharagpur and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from University of Bombay. He served in senior positions in the shipbuilding industry till he was invited to become a senior Professor at IIT, Madras.
At the call of his social conscience, he switched over to Environmental Science and Engineering in the last two decades. He is the author of several books, viz. Sustainable Development - Environment, Energy and Water Resources; Sea, Seafaring and Ships - Evolution through Ancient, Medieval & Modern Times; Green World Green Energy - A Search for a New Way of Living; and Renewable Energy. His Papers appeared in reputed Journals in UK and Japan. Till recently he was the President of the Millennium Institute of Energy and Environment, an NGO in Kolkata and also Chief Editor of its Journal Green Earth.