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Replenish : the virtuous cycle of water and prosperity / Sandra Postel.
Sandra Postel takes readers around the world to explore water projects that work with, rather than against, nature's rhythms. In New Mexico, forest rehabilitation is safeguarding drinking water; along the Mississippi River, farmers are planting cover crops to reduce polluted runoff; and in China, "sponge cities" are capturing rainwater to curb urban flooding. Efforts like these will be essential as climate change disrupts both weather patterns and the models on which we base our infrastructure. We will be forced to adapt. The question is whether we will continue to fight the water cycle or recognize our place in it and take advantage of the inherent services nature offers. Water, Postel writes, is a gift, the source of life itself. How will we use this greatest of gifts? -- amazon.com
Record details
- ISBN: 9781610917902
- ISBN: 1610917901
- Physical Description: ix, 323 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Publisher: Washington, DC : Island Press, [2017]
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Search for related items by subject
| Subject: | Water-supply engineering. Water. Water conservation. Water consumption. Water resources development. Water-supply. Water use. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Legislative Library.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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| Legislative Library, Vaughan Street | TD 353 Pos (Text) | 36970100156183 | General Collection | Volume hold | Available | - |
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Postel, who lectures, writes, and consults on global water issues, illustrates the evolving mindset in water management and how farmers, businesses, and conservationists are rejuvenating watersheds and floodplains and replenishing rivers, groundwater, and soils, to mitigate flood damages, prepare for droughts, restore habitats, grow food, augment water supplies, and strengthen water security. She describes water projects around the world, such as in New Mexico, China, Europe, California, New York, Australia, and along the Mississippi River and Colorado River Delta. Annotation ©2017 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com) - Booklist Reviews : Booklist Reviews 2017 October #1
*Starred Review* The solution might not be as sexy as throwing large sums of money to access quality water. What if, argues Postel (The Last Oasis: Facing Water Scarcity, 2014), director of the Global Water Policy Project, we conserved this essential resource in innovative ways and explore other smart ways of using water instead? The galvanizing reasons behind Postel's push for water conservation should be common knowledge to most. After all, many will agree with her thesis that water crises, the biggest global risk to society, require "a new understanding of our relationship to freshwaterâand a new way of thinking about how we use, manage, and value it." Eschewing mere hand-wringing about climate change, this clear-eyed treatise hops around the world outlining real-world solutions that are already being implemented to affect change on the ground. Postel makes her case eloquently, citing among other success stories the revival of the Colorado River Delta and the Loess Plateau restoration in China. Such inspirational examples, supplemented by an efficient overview of water-conservation ideas (sewer mining, anyone?), give cause to celebrate small pockets of hope in our fight to save the planet's precious and vulnerable freshwater. Copyright 2017 Booklist Reviews.
