Water Follies: Groundwater Pumping And The Fate Of America's Fresh Waters

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UPC:
9781559634007
Binding:
Paperback
Publication Date:
1/14/2004
Author:
Dr. Robert Jerome Glennon J.D. Ph.D
Language:
english
Edition:
1st
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...a book as rich in detail as it is devastating in its argument. -SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN

Water Follies deserves a place alongside the late Marc Reisner's classic Cadillac Desert. -ENVIRONMENT

a lively account of hydrology -NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS

if you want to scare yourself silly, read Water Follies, by Robert Glennon. In it you'll learn how America is irrigating itself to death-just like the Sumerians-while sucking its groundwater aquifers dry. -TORONTO GLOBE & MAIL