Peak Water: How We Built Civilisation on Water and Drained the World Dry

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Civilisation is thirsty... it never stopped to think what would happen if the water ran out. ALEXANDER BELL

Peak water is the point when the available water is not enough to meet the demands of the world's growing population. We might live on a watery world, but we are exhausting accessible supplies. Many parts of the world are already facing this crisis, and not only in the developing world. Some of the places experiencing 'peak water' are in the USA, Europe and the UK. Even the wettest lands will be engulfed in the global catastrophe that looms. This is the issue of our age.

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Title	Peak Water: How We Built Civilisation on Water and Drained the World Dry
Author	Alexander Bell
Binding	Paperback
ISBN-13	9781906817718
No. of Pages	256
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Edition	2
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Back Cover Copy	This tale flows from the moment a ditch was dug in old Iraq, to the way our modern cities work. It links the hanging gardens of Babylon to the first water supply for Los Angeles, the ancient myth of the Nile to swimming pools in the desert. Our world has been built around the control of water. We are fed by irrigated fields, live in plumbed cities, and turn on a tap without a moment?s thought. Yet experts now believe that the next major war may be fought over water, and it will have life-altering consequences for every part of the world, wet or dry. Writer Alexander Bell discusses the way our civilisation moved from hunter gathering to the urban one we know today, and the influence that water had on this journey. He shows how water control flows through politics, religion, farming and the idea of the modern state. Yet history is littered with empires that have failed and vanished into dust, and Bell argues that we might face a similar fate unless we learn to manage our water better.
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BISAC Subject	NATURE / Natural Resources
BIC Subject	Drought & water supply

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