Water wars drought, flood, folly, and the politics of thirst /
From the co-author of "Tiger-Wallahs" comes a book on what every person should know--beyond the headlines of the current global water crisis--about the history and fate of our most vital resource.
| Main Author: | Ward, Diane Raines. |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
New York :
Riverhead Books,
2002.
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| Physical Description: |
280 pages ; 24 cm. |
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Table of Contents:
- Hold back the sea: Climate shock and rising waters
- Sin of scale: Great projects
- Thousand valleys: River basins and utopian dreams
- Dry, drier, driest: greening the desert
- Predicaments: power and water
- Raging rivers: Living in floodplains
- Wars
- Praying for rain
- Epilogue: Everglades.
- Hold back the sea : climate shock and rising waters
- A sin of scale : the great projects
- A thousand valleys : river basins and utopian dreams
- Dry, drier, driest :greening the desert
- Predicaments : power and water
- Raging rivers : living in floodplains
- The wars
- Praying for rain
- Epilogue : the Everglades.