M. : Science, 2006. — 221 s. The book examines the environmental, economic, social and political aspects of water consumption in the past, present and foreseeable future at the global and continental levels, with the CIS highlighted and a detailed analysis of the situation in Russia. A variety of data on water reserves, the state of water bodies, ecosystems providing freshwater reproduction, as well as data on the impact of human economic activity on water systems have been systematized. The system interrelations of various aspects of water consumption, mechanisms of emergence and strengthening of water deficit, its importance in international relations and ways to overcome it are shown. For specialists in the field of hydrology, ecology, environmental economics, international relations, students studying in the specialties "hydrology of land", "environmental economics", "ecology and the use of natural resources", and graduate students .