Written in water
Subtitle: messages of hope for earth's most precious resource
By: edited by Irena Salina
Publisher: National Geographic Society
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9781426205729
Description: "Written in Water: A Message for the Future is a collection of the true stories of people - men and women, politicians and scientists, laymen and experts - sharing in their own words what they have seen and what they have learned in their efforts to bring clean water to all."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / Peter Gleick; title: The end of the Colorado : fishing with the Cucupá / Frank Clifford; title: A river story : cleaning up the Nashua / Marion Stoddart; title: Liquid assets on steep slopes : solving water shortages through ancient knowledge / Anupam Mishra; title: Honest hope : searching for a new water ethic / Sandra Postel; title: Respect for water : reflecting on a lifetime of environmental reporting / Fred Pearce; title: Another Africa is possible : witnessing the consequences of Kenya's flower farms / Maude Barlow; title: The unmentionables : talking about sanitation / Rose George; title: Brides of the well : a short story / Shekhar Kapur; title: A world that works : breaking places / Bill McKibben; title: Photography journey : taking the long view at Mount Everest / Alton C. Byers; title: What's in a name : monitoring the "miner's canary" in the Congo / Melanie Stiassny; title: The fear of doing without : bringing fresh water and new ideas to the Dominican Republic / Ellsworth Havens; title: Water man : reviving arid villages / Rajendra Singh; title: A ride for nature : traveling the West by horseback / William "Waterway" Marks; title: Water changes everything : building a charity / Scott Harrison; title: Save what's left : teaching kids to love rain forests / Lynne Cherry; title: To save a gull : taxing yourself / Alex Matthiessen; title: Dynamic for change : recognizing the importance of the watershed / Christine Todd Whitman; title: The páramos of Ayabaca : defending water and place / Jorge Recharte; title: Tending the land : reclaiming our food / Frederick Kirschenmann; title: A walk along the river : caring for watersheds / Dave Rosgen; title: On the heads of women : safeguarding water / Kathy Robb; title: Two noble truths : the ultraviolet solution to clean water / Ashok Gadgil; title: Nature abhors a monopoly : how we, like Kalahari bushmen, can trade our human right to water / James Workman; title: Water is life : stories from a blue planet / Alexandra Cousteau.