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Title: Water Wars: Drought, Flood, Folly and the Politics of Thirst by Diane Raines Ward ISBN: 1-57322-229-1 Publisher: Penguin Putnam Pub. Date: 01 August, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.2 (5 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Water Wars: A Voice of Reality
Comment: Ms. Ward's book left me with a lot to think about. The next true crisis in the world will be "water". One thing that I was thoroughly impressed was the way she not only presented problems, but, probably solutions. The recent North Carolina drought showed that everyone in the near future will begin to experience water problems. Ms. Ward's book reminded me that we need to think more about permanent solutions instead of stop gap measures
Rating: 3
Summary: An easy read, but has flaws
Comment: Ward takes a comprehensive and world-wide view of the problem of managing water, and I learned a considerable amount from her book. She writes with an easy style. (Another reviewer calls it "the best book on water that I've read"; that's true for me, too, but in my case it's faint praise since I've only read this book!) Clearly, water management is becoming more important as the world's population grows, and given the public policy decisions facing most nations, it is a subject that the average citizen will need to learn more about. Unfortunately, the book has a couple of flaws. First, it is shallow technically, even for a popular non-fiction book; Ward could benefit by providing additional depth on both the technology of watershed management and the dominant legal structures behind it. Second, I found the footnotes to be very poorly written; frequently direct quotes appear without footnotes, and on many occasions the information in a footnote is almost a non-sequitur when compared to the footnoted text.
Rating: 5
Summary: The best book on water I've read
Comment: This is a terrific book-passionate, informed, wide-ranging, and filled with lots of quotes and anecdotes. And it's very personal-Ms. Ward isn't writing from an armchair-she's been to all the places she writes about, and it shows. She's got a great sense of drama and eye for detail-you're right there with her in the helicopter when she flies low over a network of rivers. And because she knows the subject so well, Ms. Ward places all the twists and turns in her fascinating story in a broad, historical context. I'll never look at a glass of water in quite the same way again.
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Title: Water Follies: Groundwater Pumping and the Fate of America's Fresh Waters by Robert Jerome Glennon, Island Press ISBN: 1559632232 Publisher: Island Press Pub. Date: 01 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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Title: Water: The Fate of Our Most Precious Resource by Marq De Villiers ISBN: 0618127445 Publisher: Mariner Books Pub. Date: 01 July, 2001 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Every Drop for Sale: Our Desperate Battle Over Water by Jeff Rothfeder ISBN: 1585421146 Publisher: Jeremy P. Tarcher Pub. Date: 11 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Water Wars: Privatization, Pollution, and Profit by Vandana Shiva ISBN: 089608650X Publisher: South End Press Pub. Date: February, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Blue Gold: The Fight to Stop the Corporate Theft of the World's Water by Maude Barlow, Tony Clarke ISBN: 1565848136 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: April, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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