ISBN:

• 9781426205729
• 1426205724

Description: 304 pages ; 24 cm

Notes: Includes bibliographical references.

Contents:

• Foreword / Peter Gleick
• The end of the Colorado : fishing with the Cucupá / Frank Clifford
• A river story : cleaning up the Nashua / Marion Stoddart
• Liquid assets on steep slopes : solving water shortages through ancient knowledge / Anupam Mishra
• Honest hope : searching for a new water ethic / Sandra Postel
• Respect for water : reflecting on a lifetime of environmental reporting / Fred Pearce
• Another Africa is possible : witnessing the consequences of Kenya's flower farms / Maude Barlow
• The unmentionables : talking about sanitation / Rose George
• Brides of the well : a short story / Shekhar Kapur
• A world that works : breaking places / Bill McKibben
• Photography journey : taking the long view at Mount Everest / Alton C. Byers
• What's in a name : monitoring the "miner's canary" in the Congo / Melanie Stiassny
• The fear of doing without : bringing fresh water and new ideas to the Dominican Republic / Ellsworth Havens
• Water man : reviving arid villages / Rajendra Singh
• A ride for nature : traveling the West by horseback / William "Waterway" Marks
• Water changes everything : building a charity / Scott Harrison
• Save what's left : teaching kids to love rain forests / Lynne Cherry
• To save a gull : taxing yourself / Alex Matthiessen
• Dynamic for change : recognizing the importance of the watershed / Christine Todd Whitman
• The páramos of Ayabaca : defending water and place / Jorge Recharte
• Tending the land : reclaiming our food / Frederick Kirschenmann
• A walk along the river : caring for watersheds / Dave Rosgen
• On the heads of women : safeguarding water / Kathy Robb
• Two noble truths : the ultraviolet solution to clean water / Ashok Gadgil
• Nature abhors a monopoly : how we, like Kalahari bushmen, can trade our human right to water / James Workman
• Water is life : stories from a blue planet / Alexandra Cousteau.

LCCN: 2009046141

Subjects:

• Aquatic ecology.
• Water -- Environmental aspects.

Other Authors: Salina, Irena, 1968-