Water Scarcity
Widely discussed as a theme and hard to express as an investment, since most water is priced politically. The literature is journalistic and policy-focused rather than financial.
8 books
Start here
- The Big ThirstCharles Fishman, 2011
- Cadillac DesertMarc Reisner, 1986
- When the Rivers Run DryFred Pearce, 2006
Books 8
Marc Reisner · 1986 · American water politics and the economics of subsidised infrastructure.
Fred Pearce · 2006 · Field reporting on aquifer depletion and river closure worldwide.
T3 Unquenchable
Robert Glennon · 2009 · American water law, and why the scarce resource is priced at nothing.
T3 Water
Steven Solomon · 2010 · Water as the organising resource of economic and imperial history.
Charles Fishman · 2011 · The clearest account of water as an under-priced industrial input.
T3 Water 4.0
David L. Sedlak · 2014 · The engineering and capital replacement cycle of urban water systems.
Seth M. Siegel · 2015 · Israel pricing water properly and building an export industry from it.
T3 Replenish
Sandra Postel · 2017 · On restoring water systems; the practical side of the same problem.