When The Rivers Run Dry
Language: English
Published by Beacon Press, Boston, MA, 2006
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Olmstead Books, Port Dover, ON, CanadaOlmstead Books
AbeBooks seller since December 21, 2011
Condition: Used - Near fine
US$ 17.95
Quantity: 6 available
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8vo, The corners and spine are sharp, the books is new and unread. Dust jacket is new and crisp. Water - the defining crisis of the twenty-first century. 324 pages.
Seller Inventory # 11887
- Title
- When The Rivers Run Dry
- Author
- Pearce, Fred
- Publisher
- Beacon Press, Boston, MA
- Publication year
- 2006
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Dust jacket
- Near Fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0807085723
- ISBN 13
- 9780807085721
- Edition
- Second Edition.
- Seller catalogs
- Nature, Non Fiction/Water-Supply
Pearce traveled to more than thirty countries while researching When the Rivers Run Dry, examining the current state of crucial water sources like the Indus River in Pakistan, the Colorado River in the United States, and the Yellow and Yangzte rivers in China. Pearce deftly weaves together the complicated scientific, economic, and historic dimensions of the water crisis, showing us its complex origins-from waste to wrong-headed engineering projects to high-yield crop varieties that have saved developing countries from starvation but are now emptying their water reserves. He reveals the most daunting water issues we face today, among them the threat of flooding in China's Yellow River, where rising silt levels will prevent dykes from containing floodwaters; the impoverishment of Pakistan's Sindh, a once-fertile farming valley now destroyed by the 14 million tons of salt that the much-depleted Indus deposits annually on the land but cannot remove; the disappearing Colorado River, whose reservoirs were once the lifeblood of seven states but which could dry up as soon as 2007; and the poisoned springs of Palestine and the Jordan River, where Israeli control of the water supply has only fed conflict between Israelis and Palestinians.
The situation is dire, but not without remedy. Pearce argues that the solution to the growing worldwide water shortage is not more and bigger dams but greater efficiency and a new water ethic based on managing the water cycle for maximum social benefit rather than narrow self-interest.
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Olmstead Books
Port Dover, ON, Canada
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