Alice Outwater

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Water: A Natural HistoryPaperback, 27 September 1997

Water: A Natural History
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Print Length
224 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Basic Books
Date Published
27 Sep 1997
ISBN-10
0465037801
ISBN-13
9780465037803

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Nominated for the Winship/PEN New England Award

In "Water: A Natural History, " Alice Outwater takes us on a journey that begins 500 years ago, back to the wardrobe records of the kings of France and the diaries of the first Western explorers, to recover a lost knowledge -- how the land cleans its water. "Water" moves from the reservoir to the toilet, from the grasslands of the Midwest to the Everglades of Florida, through the guts of a wastewater treatment plant and out to the waterways again. Step by step, we come to learn what should have been done from the beginning: A complex ecological system long kept American water remarkably clean but as we have randomly removed necessary components from it, we have simplified the system to the point where it can no longer do its job. While engineering can depollute water, only these ecologically interacting systems can create healthy waterways. "Water" is the unforgettable story of the symbiosis that existed between the country's water, the land from which it springs and the life the two support together. It is a story that none of us who hope to live on this planet can afford to miss.

Product Details

Author:
Alice Outwater
Book Format:
Paperback
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
27 September 1997
Dimensions:
21.18 x 12.01 x 1.3 cm
Genre:
Ecology
ISBN-10:
0465037801
ISBN-13:
9780465037803
Language:
English
Pages:
224
Publisher:
Weight:
231.33 gm

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