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Title: Water: A Natural History by Alice Outwater ISBN: 0-465-03780-1 Publisher: Basic Books Pub. Date: October, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.4 (10 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Clarity about the reason why our water is not yet clear/pure
Comment: Many of the books on the increasingly common water shortages spend a great deal of their time listing mind numbing statistics. This author is authoritative but has the sense to pick a few key reasons why our entire US water infrastructure needs the help of nature. Beavers and prairie dogs may be what we need, at least in this country, to improve the percolating powers of the earth to clean what science alone cannot remove from our water. This is one of the few books in this area that is readable by anyone over mid-teens. I highly recommend this book for a history of why the Clean Water Act is not enough.
Rating: 5
Summary: most informative book on water and environment
Comment: This book opens one's eyes about water, the way the water cycle was before the continent was despoiled, little things like water percolating through leaves and big things like the beaver dams constructed by 200 million beavers...now, there are 200 million people! We are ordering extra copies to give away, to inform and to intrigue people in all walks of life.
Rating: 5
Summary: Jam-packed, Non-fat Eco-journey
Comment: This is a superlative book; I recommend anyone living in the USA to read it. It is short, but each sentence is informative, there are no wasted words, no fat. It is scientifically and historically acurate to the smallest detail, but never dry. Outwater's writing style is flowing and musical, and each sentence takes you further and deeper into an Alice-in-Wonderland journey of the magic and marvel of each of the ecosytems she describes. She uses water as the vehicle for each journey, from molecules to the ocean. She describes the balances of Nature and how humans have fit in, or destroyed, these balances. I am a longtime outdoorsman, photographer, and conservationist, and had thought I was reasonably observant. But reading this book was like having a film removed from my eyes and being fitted with ultra-acute vision and hightened understanding and appreciation of our history and environment.
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Title: Fresh Water by E. C. Pielou ISBN: 0226668150 Publisher: University of Chicago Press (Trd) Pub. Date: September, 1998 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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Title: Our Ecological Footprint: Reducing Human Impact on the Earth by Williams E. Rees, Phil Testemale, Mathis Wackernagel ISBN: 086571312X Publisher: New Society Pub Pub. Date: November, 1995 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Water: The Fate of Our Most Precious Resource by Marq de Villiers ISBN: 0618127445 Publisher: Mariner Books Pub. Date: July, 2001 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Eco-Pioneers: Practical Visionaries Solving Today's Environmental Problems by Steve Lerner ISBN: 026262124X Publisher: MIT Press Pub. Date: 22 May, 1998 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold, Charles W. Schwartz ISBN: 0345345053 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: June, 1990 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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