'An indispensable guide to a vital issue.' Scientific and Medical Network Review
"Visually ingenious." OXFAM Development Resources Review
"A very attractive and useful book...Highly recommended." New Agriculturalist
"Provides a fascinating look at the state of water in our world and can be considered a must-read for anyone grappling with this complex topic." The Sierra Club Green Life Blog
"I hope - if only in a small way - that I can encourage people to read and learn from this book. It is accessible to a wide range of readers from school children upwards and presents information and analysis in a clear and attractive 'atlas' format [and is] clearly of great value for researchers, practitioners such as myself, water policy makers and their advisers. [...] The contents of the book are [...] all one could hope for" Mike Woolgar, Waterlines
"Attractively presented and easy to understand... all the maps an associated texts are interesting and pertinent." HealthMatters
"An excellent handbook" The Economist
"It is a pioneering work unraveling the water world comprehensively in a unique format of fascinating analysis and illustrated by data charts, figures, photographs with lucid narration. [...] such a book was an urgent necessity." Subhajyoti Das in the Journal of the Geological Society of India