When the rivers run dry : water, the defining crisis of the twenty-first century /

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 c...

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Main Author: Pearce, Fred (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Boston : Beacon Press, [2006]
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