Confronting Water Insecurity

Roberto L. Lenton is professor emeritus of biological systems engineering at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Before coming to the University of Nebraska in 2012 as founding executive director of the Robert B. Daugherty Water for Food Global Institute, he held leadership roles in major global institutions including the Ford Foundation, the International Water Management Institute, the United Nations Development Programme, and the World Bank. Lenton is coeditor of Integrated Water Resources Management in Practice: Better Water Management for Development.

"By understanding our past, provoking the status quo, and crafting the future, Roberto Lenton takes us on an inspiring journey toward a world where water is prioritized as an organizing principle, and where the water cycle is valued and governed as a global common good."--Henk Ovink, executive director and founding commissioner for the Global Commission on the Economics of Water "In this important, timely, and readable book that holds many lessons for environmental action, Roberto Lenton lucidly narrates how global institutions helped water management science and policy become more global, multidisciplinary, and multistakeholder, calling for holistic approaches and an appropriate global institutional architecture."--Julia Marton-Lefevre, former director general of the International Union for Conservation of Nature