Clean, Clear, and Cold
The Fate of Fresh Water in the Twenty-First Centur
1st Edition
Published on 7. June 2011
352 pages
978-1-4391-6849-3 (ISBN)
Description
Alex Prud'homme's remarkable work of investigative journalism shows how fresh water is the pressing global issue of the twenty-first century.
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Alex Prud'homme was born in New York City. A graduate of Middlebury College, he has worked as a fisherman in Australia, an English teacher in Japan, and a janitor in Paris. His other books include Forewarned (with Michael Cherkasky) about terrorism and security, and the New York Times bestseller My Life in France. He lives with his family in Brooklyn, New York.
Content
- Intro
- Description
- Author Bio
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Prologue: Under Pressure
- Part I: Quality: What is in Our Water?
- Chapter 1: The Defining Resource
- Chapter 2: The Mystery of Newtown Creek
- Chapter 3: Going to Extremes
- Chapter 4: The Number One Menace
- Chapter 5: The Treatment
- Chapter 6: Brave New World
- Chapter 7: From the Chickens to the Crabs
- Chapter 8: The Missing Greenhouse Gas
- Chapter 9: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back
- Chapter 10: Time of Waste
- Part II: Drought: A Creeping Disaster
- Chapter 11: Water Scarcity
- Chapter 12: The Age of Perpetual Drought
- Chapter 13: Revenue Streams
- Chapter 14: Drain
- Chapter 15: The City That Wasn't Supposed to Be
- Chapter 16: The Dammed
- Chapter 17: Snowpack: The Canary in a Coal Mine
- Chapter 18: Water Wars
- Part III: Flood: Come Hell Or High Water
- Chapter 19: "A Twenty-First-Century Catastrophe"
- Chapter 20: Forensic Engineering
- Chapter 21: Keeping Our Feet Dry
- Part IV: Water in the Twenty-First Century: Conflict and Innovation
- Chapter 22: The Sacramento Delta: A Gordian Knot
- Chapter 23: Liquidity: Privatization and the Rise of Big Water
- Chapter 24: Water and Power
- Chapter 25: "Pop Culture in a Bottle"
- Chapter 26: The Battle for Bristol Bay
- Chapter 27: In Search of a Drought-Proof Source
- Conclusion The Ripple Effect
- Epilogue "Water!"
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Index
- Footnotes
