conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Give me a description for a book titled Water about Water, Adam, Smith with the genre: Science & Math, Biological Sciences.
conversations.from: assistant
conversations.value: Water is a curious thing, observed the economist Adam Smith: although it is vital to life, it costs almost nothing, whereas diamonds, which are useless for survival, cost a fortune. In <I>Water</I>, Canadian journalist de the author says the resource is still undervalued, but it is becoming more precious. It's not that the world is running out of water, he adds, but that "it's running out in places where it's needed most."
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Give me the first three paragraphs for this book.
conversations.from: assistant
conversations.value: Water: The Fate of Our Most Precious Resource
  The recovery of the Rhine has been widely reported. A useful summary is contained in a report for the International Wildlife Federation by Page Chichester (cited below), which was supplemented by my own visits and interviews. The International Commission for the Protection of the Rhine has its own Web page, which is surprisingly candid. A useful summary paper is Aleta Brown's "Bringing Rivers Back from the Brink," for the International Rivers Network. The Danube story was put together from personal observations and from the proceedings of the International Court of Justice at The Hague. Two papers by the Russian hydrologist I. P. Zaretskaya were particularly helpful: "Water Availability and Use in the Danube Basin" and "State of the Art: Expected Water Availability and Water Use in the Danube Basin." The Hungarian Greens have been very active, and their discussions on the Internet proved very useful.
  Some of the essential sources were mentioned in my introduction. But of course there are many, many others.
  Papers unsourced in this list are from the Proceedings of the International Conference on Water ("Water: The Looming Crisis"), Paris, lune 1998, published by UNESCO.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Delete the last sentence.
conversations.from: assistant
conversations.value: Water: The Fate of Our Most Precious Resource
  The recovery of the Rhine has been widely reported. A useful summary is contained in a report for the International Wildlife Federation by Page Chichester (cited below), which was supplemented by my own visits and interviews. The International Commission for the Protection of the Rhine has its own Web page, which is surprisingly candid. A useful summary paper is Aleta Brown's "Bringing Rivers Back from the Brink," for the International Rivers Network. The Danube story was put together from personal observations and from the proceedings of the International Court of Justice at The Hague. Two papers by the Russian hydrologist I. P. Zaretskaya were particularly helpful: "Water Availability and Use in the Danube Basin" and "State of the Art: Expected Water Availability and Water Use in the Danube Basin." The Hungarian Greens have been very active, and their discussions on the Internet proved very useful.
  Some of the essential sources were mentioned in my introduction. But of course there are many, many others.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Give me five more paragraphs.. End with the sentence 'htm.'.
conversations.from: assistant
conversations.value: Izmailova, A. V. (St. Petersburg). "Water Availability and Scarcity in Central America and the Caribbean Region."
  Jauro, Abubakar B. "The Dwindling Water Resources of Lake Chad: An Alarming Trend of the Twenty-first Century." Lake Chad Basin Commission, Ndjamena.
  Louvet, Jean-Marc. "The Aquifers of the Grand Basins: A Vital Resource for Development and for the Struggle against Desertification in the Arid and Semi-arid Zones." Study for Observatoire du Sahara et du Sahel, Paris.
  Maïga, Étienne J., et al. "Socioeconomic Aspects of the Demand for Domestic Water in Sub-Saharan Africa: What Lessons for Water Management?"
  McKinney, Daene C., et al. (University of Texas). "Digital Atlas of World Water Balance." Also available at the Web site: www.ce.utexas.edu/prof/maidment/atlas/atlas.htm.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Give me the last five paragraphs.
conversations.from: assistant
conversations.value: Suresh, S. (Bangalore). "Intersectorial Competition for Land and Water between Users and Uses in Tamil Nadu."
  Union of Concerned Scientists. "World Scientists' Call for Action at the Kyoto Climate Summit." Cambridge, Mass., 1997.
  Water Technology Board Tenth Anniversary Symposium. "Sustaining Our Water Resources." Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press, 1993.
  Yaffe, Aharon (Jerusalem). "The Water Sources of the West Bank of the Jordan Valley and Their Utilization."
  Yangbo, C. "The Three Gorges Project: Key Project for Transferring Water from South to North." Yichang, China, 1998.