Keepers of the spring : reclaiming our water in an age of globalization
- Author/Creator:
- Pearce, Fred
- Publication/Creation:
- Washington : Island Press, [2004]
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- Full Title:
- Keepers of the spring : reclaiming our water in an age of globalization / Fred Pearce
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- Table of Contents:
- Megawater -- Civilization and the Water Cycle -- Replumbing the Planet -- Egypt's Source of Everlasting Prosperity? -- Killing the Flood Plains -- A New Force of Nature -- Libya's Great Man-Made River -- A Second Front in the Green Revolution -- The Devil's Water -- A Salty Hell -- The Keepers -- The Last of a Dying Breed? -- Hidden Wonders of the Ancient World -- Common Monuments to Human Perseverence -- America's Lost Hydraulic Civilization -- How to Catch the Rain -- The People's Green Revolution -- Trickles and Floods -- Making Water from Thin Air -- Restoring African Hydrology -- Reviving the Wetlands -- Conclusion -- The Battle for the New Agenda.
- Language:
- English
- Physical Type/Description:
- x, 260 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
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- Table of contents
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- Catalog ID (MMSID):
- 990005117190302486
- ISBN:
- 1559636815 (cloth : alk. paper)
9781559636810 (cloth : alk. paper) - OCLC Number:
- 55600834
- Barcode:
- 010001049783
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