The marsh builders
Subtitle: the fight for clean water, wetlands, and wildlife
By: Sharon Levy
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA; Oxford University Press
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 234
ISBN-13: 9780190246402
Subjects: Wetland restoration; Water; Biological treatment; Sewage; Purification
Description: "In The Marsh Builders, Sharon Levy delves into the intertwined histories of wetlands loss and water pollution. The book's springboard is the tale of a years-long citizen uprising in Humboldt County, California, which led to the creation of one of the first U.S. wetlands designed to treat city sewage. The book explores the global roots of this local story: the cholera epidemics that plagued nineteenth-century Europe; the researchers who invented modern sewage treatment after bumbling across the insight that microbes break down pollutants in water; the discovery that wetlands act as efficient filters for the pollutants unleashed by modern humanity."--Dust jacket flap.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.