Mirage
Subtitle: Florida and the vanishing water of the Eastern U.S.
By: Cynthia Barnett.
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Ann Arbor, MI
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780472115631
Description: "Part investigative journalism, part environmental history, Mirage reveals how the eastern half of the nation - historically so wet that early settlers predicted it would never even need irrigation - has squandered so much of its abundant freshwater that it now faces shortages and conflicts once unique to the arid West." "Told through a colorful cast of characters including Walt Disney, Jeb Bush and Texas oilman Boone Pickens, Mirage ferries the reader through the key water-supply issues facing America and the globe: water wars, the politics of development, inequities in the price of water, the bottled-water industry, privatization, and new-water-supply schemes."--Jacket.