Updated with new material Every day, we hear alarming news about droughts, pollution, population growth, and climate change—which threaten to make water, even more than oil, the cause of war within our lifetime. Diane Raines Ward reaches beyond the headlines to illuminate our most vexing problems and tells the stories of those working to solve them: hydrologists, politicians, engineers, and everyday people. Based on ten years of research spanning five continents, Water Wars offers fresh insight into a subject to which our fate is inextricably bound.

Autorentext

Diane Raines Ward is a journalist whose work has appeared in Smithsonian, Newsweek, Connoisseur, and International Wildlife. She and her husband, Geoffrey C. Ward, co-wrote the book Tiger-Wallahs: Encounters with the Men Who Tried to Save the Greatest of the Great Cats. Together they run a nonprofit organization dedicated to conservation efforts in India.



Inhalt

Water WarsIntroduction Sweet Water

Chapter 1 Hold Back the Sea Climate Shock and Rising Waters

Chapter 2 A Sin of Scale The Great Projects

Chapter 3 A Thousand Valleys River Basins and Utopian Dreams

Chapter 4 Dry, Drier, Driest Greening the Desert

Chapter 5 Predicaments Power and Water

Chapter 6 Raging Rivers Living in Floodplains

Chapter 7 The Wars

Chapter 8 Praying for Rain

Epilogue The Everglades

Notes Glossary and Abbreviations Selected Bibliography by Subject Acknowledgments Index

Titel
Water Wars
Untertitel
Drought, Flood, Folly, and the Politics of Thirst
EAN
9781101663974
ISBN
978-1-101-66397-4
Format
E-Book (epub)
Veröffentlichung
03.06.2003
Digitaler Kopierschutz
Adobe-DRM
Dateigrösse
0.9 MB
Anzahl Seiten
320
Jahr
2003
Untertitel
Englisch