[PDF.43gj] Pillar of Sand: Can the Irrigation Miracle Last? (Environmental Alert Series)

Pillar of Sand: Can the Irrigation Miracle Last? (Environmental Alert Series)

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 | #1615997 in Books |  W. W. Norton & Company |  1999-07-17 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.30 x.90 x5.50l,.80 | File type: PDF | 320 pages

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||8 of 8 people found the following review helpful.| More crop per drop - fewer drops for all|By Friederike Knabe|Sandra Postel goes well beyond a simple answer to the question posed by her subtitle 'Can the Irrigation Miracle last?' This book is an important resource for anybody trying to understand why water scarcity is such a major and escalating problem at the dawn of this century. Rather than adding to the generalist debat| |[A] lucid and authoritative account of humanity's dwindling supply of fresh water. -- E.O. Wilson|About the Author|Sandra Postel lives in Amherst, Massachusetts, where she directs the Global Water Policy Project. S

The overriding lesson from history is that most irrigation-based civilizations fail. As we enter the third millennium the question arises: Will ours be any different?

For 6,000 years, irrigation has ranked among the most powerful tools of human advancement. The story of settled agriculture, the growth of cities, and the rise of early empires is, to no small degree, a story of controlling water to make the land more prosperous and habitable. Pi...

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