Blue Revolution

by Barnett, Cynthia

• ISBN13: 9780807003176
• ISBN10: 0807003174
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-09-20
• Publisher: Beacon Press

Summary

An award-winning journalist spells out with hard-hitting reporting the many ways one of the most water-rich nations on the planet is squandering its way to scarcity in a book that is the first call for a water ethic for America. From backyard waterfalls and grottoes in California to sinkholes swallowing chunks of Florida, Blue Revolution exposes how the nation’s green craze has managed to miss water – the No. 1 environmental concern of most Americans. A roadmap for turning around America’s freshwater crisis, Blue Revolution combines investigative reporting with innovative solutions from around the nation and the globe. From San Antonio to Singapore, Barnett shows how local communities and entire nations have come together in a shared water ethic to dramatically reduce consumption and live within their water means. Blue Revolution also offers a powerful meditation on water and community in America and describes a water ethic for the nation – including a call for “local water.”