Water !!!

Check out Science's special issue on Freshwater Resources.  Oki and Kanae review current understanding of the hydrological cycle and how climate change affects freshwater abundance.  Other articles review freshwater resources in the Arctic, chemical contamination problems, progress in addressing water-borne infectious diseases and desalinization, large-scale water resources projects in China and India, and the politics of water resource management:

Editorial:
What's a Wetland, Anyhow?

Donald Kennedy and Brooks Hanson
Science 25 August 2006: 1019  |  Summary »  |  PDF »

News Focus:
HYDROENGINEERING: Going Against the Flow

Richard Stone and Hawk Jia
Science 25 August 2006: 1034-1037  |  Summary »  |  Full Text »  |  PDF »

News Focus:
HYDROENGINEERING: Controversial Rivers Project Aims to Turn India's Fierce Monsoon Into a Friend

Pallava Bagla
Science 25 August 2006: 1036-1037  |  Summary »  |  Full Text »  |  PDF »

Books:
WATER RESOURCES: For Our Thirsty World, Efficiency or Else

Sandra L. Postel
Science 25 August 2006: 1046-1047  |  Summary »  |  Full Text »  |  PDF »

Review:
Trajectory Shifts in the Arctic and Subarctic Freshwater Cycle

Bruce J. Peterson, James McClelland, Ruth Curry, Robert M. Holmes, John E. Walsh, and Knut Aagaard
Science 25 August 2006: 1061-1066  |  Abstract »  |  Full Text »  |  PDF »  |  Supporting Online Material »

Review:
Global Hydrological Cycles and World Water Resources

Taikan Oki and Shinjiro Kanae
Science 25 August 2006: 1068-1072  |  Abstract »  |  Full Text »  |  PDF »

Review:
The Challenge of Micropollutants in Aquatic Systems

René P. Schwarzenbach, Beate I. Escher, Kathrin Fenner, Thomas B. Hofstetter, C. Annette Johnson, Urs von Gunten, and Bernhard Wehrli
Science 25 August 2006: 1072-1077  |  Abstract »  |  Full Text »  |  PDF »

Perspective:
Waterborne Infectious Diseases—Could They Be Consigned to History?

Alan Fenwick
Science 25 August 2006: 1077-1081  |  Abstract »  |  Full Text »  |  PDF »

Perspective:
Seeking Sustainability: Israel's Evolving Water Management Strategy

Alon Tal
Science 25 August 2006: 1081-1084  |  Abstract »  |  Full Text »  |  PDF »

News:
Running Out of Water--and Time

John Bohannon
Science 25 August 2006: 1085-1087  |  Summary »  |  Full Text »  |  PDF »

News:
Desalination Freshens Up

Robert F. Service
Science 25 August 2006: 1088-1090  |  Summary »  |  Full Text »  |  PDF »