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From the publisher. When we turn on the tap or twist open a tall plastic bottle, we might not give a second thought to where our drinking water comes from. But how it gets from the ground to the glass is far more complex than we might think. With concerns over pollution and new technologies like fracking, is it safe to drink tap water? Should we feel guilty buying bottled water? Is the water we drink vulnerable to terrorist attacks? With springs running...
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Publisher
Bloomsbury Press
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
xxvii, 384 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
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English
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"The story of our most vital resource, and how it has shaped the history of every human society, spans five millennia, from ancient Mesopotamia to the parched Sun Belt, from ancient Rome, whose mighty aqueducts still supply modern cities, to China, where emperors marshaled armies of laborers in a centuries-long struggle to tame powerful rivers. Anthropologist Fagan sets out three ages of water: In the first, lasting thousands of years, water was scarce--so...
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Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
c1992
Physical Desc
xix, 551 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
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English
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California is obsessed with water. The need for it - to use and profit from it, to control and manipulate it - has shaped California history to a remarkable extent. Not surprisingly, the story of Californians and water is a fascinating one, filled with enough intrigue and plot twists to power a spellbinding novel. Here for the first time Norris Hundley, a noted historian of the American West, tells that entire story, from before the arrival of Europeans...
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Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiv, 378 pages : color maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"In this richly narrated and authoritative work--combining environmental and societal history--Giulio Boccaletti begins with the earliest civilizations of sedentary farmers on the banks of the Nile, the Tigris, and the Euphrates. He describes how these societies were made possible by sea level changes from the last glacial melt. He examines how this sedentary farming led to irrigation and multiple cropping, which, in turn, resulted in an explosion...
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Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
xiv, 332 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
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"Turn on the faucet, and water pours out. Pull out the drain plug, and the dirty water disappears. Most of us give little thought to the hidden systems that bring us water and take it away when we're done with it. But these underappreciated marvels of engineering face an array of challenges that cannot be solved without a fundamental change to our relationship with water, David Sedlak explains in this enlightening book. To make informed decisions...
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Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 356 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
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"In The Three Ages of Water, expert on water resources and climate change Peter Gleick guides us through the long, fraught history of our most valuable resource. Spread over a ten-thousand-year human history, it begins with the fundamental evolutionary role water had in shaping early civilizations and empires, crests to the scientific and social revolutions that created modern society, and spills into the global water crisis of depleted groundwater...
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