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Recommended reading on Environmental issues
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Blue Gold: The Battle Against Corporate Theft of the World`s WaterBy Tony Clarke and Maude Barlow
The world's most fundamental and indispensable resource - water - is fast disappearing. In fact, a global shortage of water is looming as the most threatening ecological, economic and political crisis of the twenty-first century.
Blue Gold not only illuminates the dilemma we find ourselves in, but also arms us with the information and strategies we need to make a difference in our own country and globally. There is only one action to take, the authors argue in this cogent and impassioned manifesto: we must become fresh water`s responsible custodians.The Water Thieves
By Sam Mahon.
This book illustrates Sam`s passion for rivers and clean water and especially the Hurunui River which is under threat by irrigators.
Cadillac Desert: The American West and its disappearing water.
By Mark Reisner.
The acclaimed saga of water.
The Future Eaters
By Tim Flannery
An ecological history of the Australasian lands and people.
When the Rivers Run Dry
By Fred Pearce
Water is almost certainly bound to overcome oil and gas as the most limiting resource for human health and wellbeing. Yet as a species, we are nowhere near ready for the shift to sharing water for the future planet and her peoples.
Dirt An Unnatural History
By David R. Montgomery an Earth Scientist from the University of California.
Collapse
By Jared Diamond
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