Water wars
Subtitle: drought, flood, folly, and the politics of thirst
By: by Diane Raines Ward.
Publisher: Riverhead Books
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9781573222297
Subjects: Water-supply -- Management; Hydraulic engineering; Water -- Political aspects; Water rights; Water-supply -- International cooperation
Other titles: AS Environmental Center Collection.; Associated Students Collections.
Description: From the co-author of "Tiger-Wallahs" comes a book on what every person should know--beyond the headlines of the current global water crisis--about the history and fate of our most vital resource.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-270) and index.

Property of Associated Students. This item may be checked out from the AS Environmental Center, VU 424.
Table of contents: title: Hold back the sea: Climate shock and rising waters; title: Sin of scale: Great projects; title: Thousand valleys: River basins and utopian dreams; title: Dry, drier, driest: greening the desert; title: Predicaments: power and water; title: Raging rivers: Living in floodplains; title: Wars; title: Praying for rain; title: Epilogue: Everglades.