Water Consciousness : How We All Have to Change to Protect Our Most Critical Resource

by Lohan, Tara

• ISBN13: 9780975272442
• ISBN10: 0975272446
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-09-01
• Publisher: Alternet Books

Summary

"Water Consciousness: How We All Have to Change to Protect Our Most Critical Resource is a solution-focused guide to the global water crisis hitting home everywhere. In-depth essays from leading thinkers and stunning photographs illuminate what we can do as individuals and as nations to reverse this crisis. Authors cover a breadth of topics including conservation, privatization, technology, grassroots movements, and the need for new laws that treat water as a common trust, not a commodity. Water Consciousness will not only inspire you to change how you think about water but also to change how you live with and use water every day."--BOOK JACKET.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 8
Foreword	p. 10
Water Scarcity
How Much Is Left? An Overview of the Crisis	p. 14
Is There a Plan for Drought?	p. 26
The Crisis and Solutions: A Conversation with Peter Gleick	p. 34
Water Inc
The New Corporate Threat to Our Water	p. 44
Thinking Outside the Bottle	p. 58
Agriculture's Big Thirst: How to Change the Way We Grow Our Food	p. 72
The Age of Consequences: A Short History of Dams	p. 82
Water Solutions
Watershed Literacy: Restoring Community and Nature	p. 98
Acequias: A Model for Local Governance of Water	p. 110
Can We Conserve Our Way Out of This?	p. 120
Natural Solutions to Our Water Crisis	p. 134
Water Neutral: New Technology and Green Design	p. 146
Water Future
On Developing "Water Consciousness": Eight Movement Building Principles	p. 160
The Sacred Waters	p. 168
Making Water a Human Right	p. 176
Why We Need a Water Ethic	p. 186
Afterword	p. 192
14 Actions to Protect Our Water	p. 194
Water Calculator Quiz	p. 196
Water H[subscript 2]O=Life Exhibit	p. 202
End Notes	p. 204
Contributor Biographies	p. 210
Photography Credits	p. 213
Acknowledgments	p. 214
Resources	p. 216
Index	p. 220
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