Water Wars
Drought, Flood, Folly, and the Politics of Thirst
Published on 3. June 2003
320 pages
978-1-101-66397-4 (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.
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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.
Content
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
