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Can I read When the Rivers Run Dry : Water--The Defining Crisis of the Twenty-first Century on EtoBox?
When the Rivers Run Dry : Water--The Defining Crisis of the Twenty-first Century by Fred Pearce is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is When the Rivers Run Dry : Water--The Defining Crisis of the Twenty-first Century about?
1. The human sponge -- 2. North America : crossing the Rio Grande -- 3. Riding the water cycle -- 4. Pakistan : the unhappy valley -- 5. India : a colossal anarchy -- 6. Halliburton's job for Qaddafi -- 7. The world's largest mass poisoning -- 8. Mirages -- 9. The common wealth -- 10. Lake Chad : tragedy of the floodplains -- 11. Seas of death -- 12. Mekong : feel of the pulse -- 13. China : the hanging river -- 14. Changing climate -- 15. Wonders of the world -- 16. Sun, silt, and stagnant ponds -- 17. Dams that cause floods -- 18. Palestine : poisoning the wells of peace -- 19. The first modern water war -- 20. Swords of Damocles -- 21. Elisha's spring and the mysteries of Angkor -- 22. Losing the west -- 23. Aral sea : the end of the world -- 24. Taking the water to the people -- 25. Sewage on tap -- 26. Closed basins and closed minds -- 27. Out of thin air -- 28. Catch the rain -- 29. On the grapevine -- 30. Unfailing springs -- 31. Learning to love the floods -- 32. Freeing Saddam's captives -- 33. More crop per drop -- 34. Water ethics.;It was with the Colorado River that engineers first learned to control great rivers. But now the Colorado's reservoirs are two-thirds empty.
Who reads When the Rivers Run Dry : Water--The Defining Crisis of the Twenty-first Century?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Fred Pearce
- Publisher
- Beacon Press
- Published
- 2006
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780807054895
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Science, Technology, Nature
- Rating
- 3.92 / 5 (576 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14