
Water Wars
Drought, Flood, Folly, and the Politics of Thirst
Diane Raines Ward(Author)
Riverhead Books,U.S. (Publisher)
Published on 3. June 2003
Book
Paperback/Softback
320 pages
978-1-57322-995-1 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Penguin Putnam Inc
Dimensions
Height: 203 mm
Width: 130 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
396 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-57322-995-1 (9781573229951)
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Content
Water WarsIntroduction
Sweet Water
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