Lit Review: Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water-Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water. Cadillac Desert is a great book for anyone who wants to understand water in the west, and how we’ve created our modern water problems both in California, and in the greater Southwest region of the United States. While the book was published in 1993, the prescient […]
Lit Review: Water 4.0: The Past, Present, and Future of the World’s Most Vital Resource-Water 4.0: The Past, Present, and Future of the World’s Most Vital Resource. “If water is the essential ingredient of life, then water supply is the essential ingredient of civilization.” The book covers water systems that have supported civilization from the Romans to the modern world. No large metropolis (over 100,000) has been able to […]
Lit Review: The Big Thirst: The Secret Life and Turbulent Future of Water-The Big Thirst: The Secret Life and Turbulent Future of Water. The Big Thirst outlines our global attitudes towards water and how our current perceptions and relationships with water must change in order to grapple with the impending challenges of water scarcity. From the US to Australia to India, Fishman details how each country has […]