The Fluvial Imagination: On Lesotho's Water-Export Economy Volume 12 Hoag Colin
The Fluvial Imagination: On Lesotho's Water-Export Economy Volume 12 Hoag Colin A free open access ebook is available upon publication. An elaborate network of dams and tunnels now carries water to…
Specifikacia The Fluvial Imagination: On Lesotho's Water-Export Economy Volume 12 Hoag Colin
The Fluvial Imagination: On Lesotho's Water-Export Economy Volume 12 Hoag Colin
A free open access ebook is available upon publication. An elaborate network of dams and tunnels now carries water to Johannesburg, the subcontinent's water-stressed economic epicenter. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org.Landlocked and surrounded by South Africa on all sides, the mountain kingdom of Lesotho became the world's first "water-exporting country" when it signed a 1986 treaty with its powerful neighbor.
In this wide-ranging and deeply researched book, Colin Hoag shows how producing water commodities incites a fluvial imagination. Hopes that receipts from water sales could improve Lesotho's fortunes, however, have clashed with fears that soil erosion from overgrazing livestock could fill its reservoirs with sediment. Engineering water security for urban South Africa draws attention ever further into Lesotho's rural upstream catchments: from reservoirs to the soils and