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Gleick, Peter, 1956- author.
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Water quality management.
Water-supply.
Water security.
Water -- History.
Climatic changes.
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The three ages of wa...
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The three ages of water : prehistoric past, imperiled present, and a hope for the future / Peter Gleick.
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Gleick, Peter, 1956- author.
New York, NY : PublicAffairs, 2023.
Subjects
Water quality management.
Water-supply.
Water security.
Water -- History.
Climatic changes.
ISBN:
9781541702271 (hardcover) :
1541702271 (hardcover)
Description:
x, 356 pages : illustrations, maps, charts ; 25 cm
Edition:
First edition.
Contents:
Part One. The first age of water : A universe of water ; The miracle of life ; The evolution of humanity ; The beginning of agriculture ; The great flood ; Controlling water ; The first water war ; Laws and institutions ; From the first to the second age -- Part two. The second age of water : Scientific revolutions ; Tackling the scourge of water-related diseases ; The science of safe water ; Building modern systems ; Water poverty ; Commercializing and privatizing water ; Water and conflict ; The blue-green revolution ; Industrial growth and environmental disasters ; The loss of nature ; Floods and droughts ; Climate change ; From the second to the third age -- Part three. The third age of water : A new way forward ; Meet basic human needs ; Recognize the true value of water ; Protect and restore ; Tackle climate change ; Avoid waste ; Recycle and reuse ; Desalt ; A vision for the future ; Getting from here to there.
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"In The Three Ages of Water, expert on water resources and climate change Peter Gleick guides us through the long, fraught history of our most valuable resource. Spread over a ten-thousand-year human history, it begins with the fundamental evolutionary role water had in shaping early civilizations and empires, crests to the scientific and social revolutions that created modern society, and spills into the global water crisis of depleted groundwater reserves and ubiquitous pollution. Agriculture thrived only after irrigation; cities were possible only with clean water supplied from aqueducts and wastewater safely removed; the industrial revolution was initially dependent on steam. Many of the world's great cities - London, Rio, Buenos Aires, New York, Rome, Athens, Venice - are water cities, where ships made possible seafaring, explorations, commerce and exchange. Even the most landlocked cities of the world owe their existence to water - in the form of lakes and rivers. Fresh water is never more valuable than when it is missing: wildfires in California, British Columbia and Siberia thrived because of desiccation. Flint, MI, was slowly poisoned by a decayed source of safe drinking water. The Cuyahoga River caught fire in 1968, the Meiyu River, China, in 2014, the Bellandur Lake, India, in 2015; they all looked apocalyptic. We now face a fight to preserve clean water globally, a fight we cannot afford to lose"--
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333.91 Gl
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