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When the Rivers Run Dry: Water--The Defining Crisis of the Twenty-First Century
When the Rivers Run Dry WaterThe Defining Crisis of the TwentyFirst Century
Author: Fred Pearce, Fred Pearce
It was with the Colorado River that engineers first learned to control great rivers. But now the Colorado's reservoirs are two-thirds empty. Great rivers like the Indus and the Nile, the Rio Grande and the Yellow River are running on empty. And economists say that by 2025, water scarcity will cut global food production by more than the current U...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780807085721
ISBN-10: 0807085723
Publication Date: 3/9/2006
Pages: 320
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Publisher: Beacon Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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