The Fluvial Imagination: On Lesotho's Water-Export Economy Volume 12

by Colin Hoag and Hoag

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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. An elaborate network of dams and tunnels now carries water to Johannesburg, the subcontinent's water-stressed economic epicenter. Hopes that receipts from water...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520386345
• ISBN13: 9780520386341
• Release Date: November 2022
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.4"