Every Drop for Sale
Subtitle: Our Desperate Battle Over Water
Edition: 1st edition
Publisher: Tarcher
Published: October 11, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 205
ISBN-13: 9781585421145
Subjects: Management of land & natural resources; Sociology - General; Public Policy - Environmental Policy; Social Science; Environmental Studies; Sociology; Water Supply; Natural Resources; Social Science / General; Economic aspects; Water-supply
First sentence: THE CHATTAHOOCHEE RIVER rises harmlessly enough.
Description: "We'd like to believe there's an infinite supply of usuable water on our planet, but the truth is, we're running out. Less than .0008 percent of the total water on Earth is fit for human consumption, and thanks to decades of diversion and pollution, that amount is dwindling with terrifying speed as the demand of our burgeoning population increases ..."