Replenish
The Virtuous Cycle of Water and Prosperity
$68.83
- Paperback
336 pages
- Release Date
14 March 2020
Summary
We have disrupted the natural water cycle for centuries in an effort to control water for our own prosperity. Yet every year, recovery from droughts and floods costs billions of dollars, and we spend billions more on dams, diversions, levees, and other feats of engineering. These massive projects not only are risky financially and environmentally, they often threaten social and political stability. What if the answer was not further control of the water cycle, but repair and replenishment?San…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781642830101 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1642830100 |
| Author: | Sandra Postel |
| Publisher: | Island Press |
| Imprint: | Island Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 14 March 2020 |
| Weight: | 420g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm |
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Critics Review
“To write this impressive book Postel has done an enormous amount of research…a very readable book for anyone interested in the topic.”
“Remarkable.” —New York Times Book Review
About The Author
Sandra Postel
Sandra Postel is director of the Global Water Policy Project and co-creator of Change the Course, the national water stewardship initiative awarded the 2017 US Water Prize for restoring billions of gallons of water to depleted rivers and wetlands. From 2009-2015, she served as Freshwater Fellow of the National Geographic Society. Postel is author of Pillar of Sand: Can the Irrigation Miracle Last? and Last Oasis: Facing Water Scarcity, the basis for a PBS documentary. Her work has appeared in Science, Natural History, and Best American Science and Nature Writing.
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