Dry Spring: The Coming Water Crisis of North America
As it warms, our world is running out of fresh water - fast. Lakes, aquifers and rivers are disappearing, but we consume more water than ever. What will this mean for North Americans?\ Dry Spring shows dramatically how water loss will devastate countless communities over the next 25 years - cities and farms, forests and coastlines, ranches and orchards. The scarcity of water challenges the soaring success of some of our continent's fastest-growing regions: the American Southwest, the arid...
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Between global warming and ever-increasing consumption, the world is fast running out of water. And while water's scarcity will challenge the success of North America’s fastest-growing regions, other areas of the continent will experience dramatic flooding. Dry Spring looks at how the coming water crisis will devastate communities unless urgent action is taken. In many areas, the damage has already begun. Author Chris Wood relates compelling stories of people all over the continent coping with new conditions: Okanagan orchardists facing an uncertain future; a Mexican fisherman on the now-dry Colorado River Delta, which has been reduced to desert because of upstream usage by the American West; a Las Vegas water cop who monitors excessive lawn watering; a New Brunswick couple fleeing their coastal house because of the encroaching ocean; and more. Wood also shows how practical solutions like xeriscaping, water “recycling,” and run-off containment can preserve water for future generations.
Thanks 9Prologue The Marble and the Bowl 11Ch. 1 Eden Ablaze: Why the World's Forests Are Burning 23Ch. 2 Running Dry: Drought, Thirst and the Spread of Deserts 43Ch. 3 Curse of Plenty: Tempests, Floods and Rising Waves 59Ch. 4 Planet on Defrost: A World without Ice and Snow 85Ch. 5 Up in the Air: The Great Lakes' Uncertain Future 109Ch. 6 Overdraft: In Arms over the Colorado River 135Ch. 7 Pumping Blind: Hidden Threat in the Foothills 163Ch. 8 Outlook to 2030: Wild and Wilder 183Ch. 9 Mirages: Taps for Big Plumbing 215Ch. 10 Green Inc.: Balancing Our Ecological Books 247Ch. 11 No Fear: Putting Canada's Water Up for Sale 291Epilogue: Future-Proof 317"What Can I Do?" 331BibliographyNotes 337Acknowledgements 371Index 373
