When the Rivers Run Dry: Water--The Defining Crisis of the Twenty-first CenturyIn this groundbreaking book, veteran science correspondent Fred Pearce travels to more than thirty countries to examine the current state of crucial water sources. Deftly weaving together the complicated scientific, economic, and historic dimensions of the world water crisis, he provides our most complete portrait yet of this growing danger and its ramifications for us all. |
Contents
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North America Crossing the Rio Grande | 9 |
Riding the Water Cycle | 19 |
Pakistan The Unhappy Valley | 27 |
When the rivers run drywe mine our childrens water | 33 |
India A Colossal Anarchy | 35 |
Halliburtons Job for Qaddafi | 45 |
The Worlds Largest Mass Poisoning | 49 |
The First Modern Water War | 167 |
Swords of Damocles | 175 |
When the rivers run drycivilizations fall | 183 |
Elishas Spring and the Mysteries of Angkor | 185 |
Losing the West | 193 |
Aral Sea The End of the World | 201 |
When the rivers run drywe go looking for new water | 217 |
Taking the Water to the People | 219 |
Mirages | 57 |
When the rivers run drythe wet places die | 65 |
The Common Wealth | 67 |
Lake Chad Tragedy of the Floodplains | 77 |
Seas of Death | 89 |
Mekong Feel the Pulse | 93 |
When the rivers run dryfloods may not be far behind | 105 |
China The Hanging River | 107 |
Changing Climate | 123 |
When the rivers run dryengineers pour concrete | 129 |
Wonders of the World | 131 |
Sun Silt and Stagnant Ponds | 141 |
Dams That Cause Floods | 147 |
When the rivers run drymen go to war over water | 153 |
Palestine Poisoning the Wells of Peace | 155 |
Sewage on Tap | 231 |
Closed Basins and Closed Minds | 237 |
Out of Thin Air | 245 |
When the rivers run drywe try to catch the rain | 257 |
Catch the Rain | 259 |
On the Grapevine | 267 |
Unfailing Springs | 273 |
When the rivers run drywe go with the flow | 281 |
Learning to Love the Floods | 283 |
Freeing Saddams Captives | 293 |
More Crop Per Drop | 299 |
Water Ethics | 305 |
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