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Water Wars: Drought, Flood, Folly and the Politics of Thirst
by Ward, Diane Raines | HC | VeryGood
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- ISBN
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- Book Title
- Water Wars : Drought, Flood, Folly, and the Politics of Thirst
- Item Length
- 9.3 in
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Publication Year
- 2002
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1 in
- Genre
- Technology & Engineering, Law, Fiction
- Topic
- Hydraulics, General, Natural Resources
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- Item Weight
- 19.2 Oz
- Number of Pages
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"This is a wonderful book, a wake-up call of startling clarity and insight, with a flood of facts and anecdotes that place the abstract into riveting human perspective. I will never turn on the rap again without thinking about where water comes from and where it goes." (Ken Burns, producer and director of the Civil War, Baseball, and Jazzdocumentaries.) The story of water is complex, with roots as deep as civilization itself, but what we hear about it today is simple and stark: the world's supply is in severe crisis. Even when we're not confronted with alarming news of another drought, we're reminded of environmental changes and a growing world population that threaten to turn water into a matter over which wars will be fought. Despite these urgent warnings, how many of us can say we understand the elemental forces that brought us to such a precarious state, or what we might do to get out of it? Taking us on a world tour of the most hotly contested water climates, and introducing us to some of the most passionate advocates to emerge from them, Diane Raines Ward gives us a compelling account of where we've come from, and where we need to go. Why is the Fertile Crescent, historically one of the most lush places on earth, fast becoming a region of scarcity? What do Dutch watermen, steeped in their centuries-old, folkloric battle to protect their coasts, know about rising seas that we don't? Why are certain environmentalists so eager to dismantle thousands of years' worth of engineered solutions to distributing water? And how is it that the very technology vilified by conservationists may be the only thing that can save us? Through a narrative that's breathtakingly clear and filled with fresh insight, Ward answers these and other paradoxical questions, and gives us a bold perspective on a subject to which our fate is inextricably bound.
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Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN-10
1573222291
ISBN-13
9781573222297
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Book Title
Water Wars : Drought, Flood, Folly, and the Politics of Thirst
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Hydraulics, General, Natural Resources
Publication Year
2002
Genre
Technology & Engineering, Law, Fiction
Number of Pages
288 Pages
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Item Length
9.3 in
Item Height
1 in
Item Width
6.4 in
Item Weight
19.2 Oz
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Trade
Lc Classification Number
Td345.W257 2002
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Twelfth Grade
Copyright Date
2002
Lccn
2002-021301
Dewey Decimal
333.91
Dewey Edition
21
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