Replenish - The Virtuous Cycle of Water and Prosperity

"Nothing is more important to life than water, and no one knows water better than Sandra Postel. Replenish is a wise, sobering, but ultimately hopeful book." --Elizabeth Kolbert

"Remarkable." --New York Times Book Review

"Clear-eyed treatise...Postel makes her case eloquently." --Booklist, starred review

"An informative, purposeful argument." --Kirkus

We spend billions of dollars on irrigation, dams, sanitation plants, and other feats of engineering to control water for our own prosperity. What if the answer was not control, but replenishment? Sandra Postel takes readers around the world to explore water projects that work with, rather than against, nature's rhythms. Forest rehabilitation is safeguarding drinking water, farmers are planting cover crops to reduce polluted runoff, and "sponge cities" are capturing rainwater to curb urban flooding. Postel argues that efforts like these will be essential as we adjust to a hotter, wilder climate. Will we continue to fight the water cycle, endangering ourselves and the planet, or recognize our place in it and take advantage of the inherent services nature offers?

About the author

Sandra Postel is director of the Global Water Policy Project and co-creator of Change the Course, the national water stewardship initiative awarded the 2017 US Water Prize for restoring billions of gallons of water to depleted rivers and wetlands. From 2009-2015, she served as the Freshwater Fellow of the National Geographic Society. Postel is the author of Pillar of Sand: Can the Irrigation Miracle Last? and Last Oasis: Facing Water Scarcity, the basis for a PBS documentary. Her work has appeared in Science, Natural History, and Best American Science and Nature Writing.

Summary

A renowned water expert looks at repairing our broken water cycle using nature’s rhythms

Product details

• Authors: Sandra Postel, Postel Sandra
• Publisher: Island Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2020
• EAN: 9781642830101
• ISBN: 978-1-64283-010-1
• No. of pages: 336
• Dimensions: 148 mm x 225 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Umweltschutz, NATURE / Natural Resources, Nature, Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Environmental / Water Supply, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Real Estate / General, SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Hydrology, Conservation of the environment, Environmental policy & protocols, Environmental policy and protocols, Hydrology and the hydrosphere, Drought & Water Supply, Drought and water supply