Sandra Postel

Sandra Postel is the director of the Global Water Policy Project in Amherst, Massachusetts and the author of Pillar of Sand: Can the Irrigation Miracle Last? (Norton, 1999), Rivers for Life: Managing Water for People and Nature (Island Press, 2003) and Liquid Assets: The Critical Need to Safeguard Freshwater Ecosystems (Worldwatch paper, 2005).

The geopolitics of water in 2006

In the last days of 2005, leading thinkers and scholars from around the world share their fears, hopes and expectations of 2006. Forty-nine of openDemocracy’s distinguished contributors, from Mariano Aguirre to Slavoj Zizek, Neal Ascherson to Jonathan Zittrain – offer their predictions for the com

By Sandra Postel

/ 22 Dec 2005