An objective look at America's rapidly shrinking watersupply
Once believed to be a problem limited to America's southwest,water shortages are now an issue coast to coast, from New Englandto California. In Aqua Shock: The Water Crisis in America,author Susan J. Marks provides a comprehensive analysis of thecurrent conflicts being waged over dwindling water supplies. Shepresents the findings of university studies, think tanks, andresearch groups, as well as the opinions of water experts,including Peter Gleick, president of the Pacific Institute forStudies in Development, Environment, and Security. The book
* Explains where our water comes from and who controls it, aswell as the cost of water on cash, commodities, and capitalism
* Describes the risks of running out of water
* Details how we can preserve and protect our most precious, yetmost undervalued natural resource
Right now, battles over water supplies rage across the country.Aqua Shock is an objective look at how we arrived at thiscrisis point and what we can do-and should be doing-to solve thewater crisis in America.
Once believed to be a problem limited to America's southwest,water shortages are now an issue coast to coast, from New Englandto California. In Aqua Shock: The Water Crisis in America,author Susan J. Marks provides a comprehensive analysis of thecurrent conflicts being waged over dwindling water supplies. Shepresents the findings of university studies, think tanks, andresearch groups, as well as the opinions of water experts,including Peter Gleick, president of the Pacific Institute forStudies in Development, Environment, and Security. The book
* Explains where our water comes from and who controls it, aswell as the cost of water on cash, commodities, and capitalism
* Describes the risks of running out of water
* Details how we can preserve and protect our most precious, yetmost undervalued natural resource
Right now, battles over water supplies rage across the country.Aqua Shock is an objective look at how we arrived at thiscrisis point and what we can do-and should be doing-to solve thewater crisis in America.
"We must shift from business as usual--what we at EarthPolicy Institute call Plan A--to a plan of action tosave our environment--Plan B. That plan includesrestoration of aquifers. We can arrest the fall in watertables by increasing water productivity--getting themost use from every drop of water that we do have. Thatmeans, as Aqua Shock details, recycling, re-use,conservation, and re-thinking how and where we use watertoday. We can do it, but time is not on our side. We must actnow before it's too late."
--Lester R. Brown
President of Earth Policy Institute and author of Plan B4.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization
"Susan J. Marks's book, Aqua Shock: The Water Crisis inAmerica, brings to our attention the dire straits that Americafaces in the future because of water shortages and pollution ofexisting sources. It is time that the American public awakensto these conditions and takes steps, however costly, to changethem. Aqua Shock will help achieve this desiredgoal."
--Joel A. Tarr
Richard S. Caliguiri University Professor of History and Policy,Carnegie Mellon University
"Thankfully, Marks not only spells out in rich detail how and whywe as a country find ourselves in the present predicament, but alsohow we can emerge from it and satisfy our thirst for water in asafe and sane manner. It is within our power to solve thisproblem, and we must."
--Ronald F. Poltak
Executive Director, New England Interstate Water Pollution ControlCommission
--Lester R. Brown
President of Earth Policy Institute and author of Plan B4.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization
"Susan J. Marks's book, Aqua Shock: The Water Crisis inAmerica, brings to our attention the dire straits that Americafaces in the future because of water shortages and pollution ofexisting sources. It is time that the American public awakensto these conditions and takes steps, however costly, to changethem. Aqua Shock will help achieve this desiredgoal."
--Joel A. Tarr
Richard S. Caliguiri University Professor of History and Policy,Carnegie Mellon University
"Thankfully, Marks not only spells out in rich detail how and whywe as a country find ourselves in the present predicament, but alsohow we can emerge from it and satisfy our thirst for water in asafe and sane manner. It is within our power to solve thisproblem, and we must."
--Ronald F. Poltak
Executive Director, New England Interstate Water Pollution ControlCommission