Keepers of the Spring: Reclaiming Our Water in an Age of Globalization

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Illustrated
2004
$38.09

The solution to our water problems may not lie in new technologies - though they will play a role - but in recovering ancient traditions, using water more efficiently, and better understanding local hydrology. Searches for alternatives to mega-engineering projects.

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The solution to our water problems may not lie in new technologies - though they will play a role - but in recovering ancient traditions, using water more efficiently, and better understanding local hydrology. Searches for alternatives to mega-engineering projects.

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Format: Illustrated
Pages: 313
Edition: New title
Publisher: Island Press
Published: 30 Nov 2004
ISBN 10: 1559636815
ISBN 13: 9781559636810

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(a) remarkably well-researched book. --San Diego Union-Tribune

Author Bio

Fred Pearce has reported on environmental, science and development issues in fifty-four countries over the past fourteen years. He is based in London, England, where he is environment consultant for New Scientist magazine. He is also a regular contributor to the Boston Globe, London independent, Times Higher Education Supplement and Manchester Guardian and a broadcaster for the BBC. His books include The Dammed (Random House, 1992), the AAAS Atlas of Population and Environment (University of California Press, 2001) and the first popular study of global warming, Turning Up The Heat (Random House, 1989).