"In the days before the Internet, books like Rachel Carson's
"Silent Spring" and Marjorie Stoneman Douglas' "River of Grass"
were groundbreaking calls to action that made citizens and
politicians take notice. "Mirage "is such a book."--"St. Petersburg
Times" "Never before has the case been more compellingly made that
America's dependence on a free and abundant water supply has become
an illusion. Cynthia Barnett does it by telling us the stories of
the amazing personalities behind our water wars, the stunning
contradictions that allow the wettest state to have the most
watered lawns, and the thorough research that makes her conclusions
inescapable. Barnett has established herself as one of Florida's
best journalists and "Mirage" is a must-read for anyone who cares
about the future of the state."--Mary Ellen Klas, Capital Bureau
Chief, "Miami"" Herald" ""Mirage" is the finest general study to
date of the freshwater-supply crisis in Florida. Well-meaning
villains abound in Cynthia Barnett's story, but so too do heroes,
such as Arthur R. Marshall Jr., Nathaniel Reed, and Marjorie Harris
Carr. The author's research is as thorough as her prose is
graceful. Drinking water is the new oil. Get used to it."--Michael
Gannon, Distinguished Professor of history, University of Florida,
and author of "Florida: A Short History" "With lively prose and a
journalist's eye for a good story, Cynthia Barnett offers a
sobering account of water scarcity problems facing Florida--one of
our wettest states--and the rest of the East Coast. Drawing on
lessons learned from the American West, "Mirage" uses the lens of
cultural attitudes about water use and misuse to plead for reform.
Sure to engage and fascinate as it informs."--Robert Glennon,
Morris K. Udall Professor of Law and Public Policy, University of
Arizona, and author of "Water Follies: Groundwater Pumping and the
Fate of America's Fresh Waters" Part investigative journalism, part
environmental history, "Mirage" reveals how the eastern half of the
nation--historically so wet that early settlers predicted it would
never even need irrigation--has squandered so much of its abundant
freshwater that it now faces shortages and conflicts once unique to
the arid West. Florida's parched swamps and supersized residential
developments set the stage in the first book to call attention to
the steady disappearance of freshwater in the American East, from
water-diversion threats in the Great Lakes to tapped-out freshwater
aquifers along the Atlantic seaboard. Told through a colorful cast
of characters including Walt Disney, Jeb Bush and Texas oilman
Boone Pickens, "Mirage" ferries the reader through the key
water-supply issues facing America and the globe: water wars, the
politics of development, inequities in the price of water, the
bottled-water industry, privatization, and new-water-supply
schemes. From its calamitous opening scene of a sinkhole swallowing
a house in Florida to its concluding meditation on the relationship
between water and the American character, "Mirage" is a compelling
and timely portrait of the use and abuse of freshwater in an era of
rapidly vanishing natural resources.
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