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Water - A Natural History (Paperback)
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Water - A Natural History (Paperback)
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Loot Price R465
Discovery Miles 4 650
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An environmental engineer turned ecology writer relates the history
of our waterways and her own growing understanding of why our
waterways continue to be polluted,and what needs to be done to save
this essential natural resourse. Water: A Natural History takes us
back to the diaries of the first Western explorers it moves from
the reservoir to the modern toliet, from the grasslands of the
Midwest to the Everglades of Florida, throught the guts of a
wastewater treatment plant and out to the waterways again. It shows
how human-engineered dams, canals and farms replaces nature's
beaver dams, prairie dog tunnels, and buffalo wallows. Step by
step, Outwater makes clear what should have always been obvious:
while engineering can depollute water, only ecologically
interacting systems can create healthy waterways.Important reading
for students of environmental studies, the heart of this history is
a vision of our land and waterways as they once were, and a plan
that can restore them to their former glory: a land of living
streams, public lands with hundreds of millions of beaver-built
wetlands, prairie dog towns that increase the amount of rainfall
that percolates to the groundwater, and forests that feed their
fallen trees to the sea.
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