Dry Spring
Subtitle: The Coming Water Crisis of North America
Publisher: Raincoast Books
Published: April 28, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 350
ISBN-13: 9781551928142
Subjects: Environmental - Water Supply; Nature / Water Supply; Water Supply; Nature; Water conservation; Water quality; Water-supply; Nature/Ecology
Description: "As it warms, our world is running out of fresh water--fast. Lakes, aquifers and rivers are disappearing, but we consume more water than ever. What will this mean for North Americans? Dry spring shows dramatically how water loss will devastate countless communities over the next 25 years--cities and farms, forests and coastlines, ranches and orchards. The scarcity of water challenges the soaring success of some of our continent's fastest-growing regions: the American Southwest, the arid plains of Western Canada, the cross-border Great Lakes Basin. Yet while unprecedented dryness afflicts such areas as these, violently wet storms pummel many others. And drought and flooding will only worsen over time. In years to come, Canada will get more water and the U.S. less; Wood demonstrates provocatively what this will mean for political relations. He concludes with inspiring examples of choices we can all make that will help us preserve our water for future generations."--Jacket.