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