Cheryl Colopy

Dirty, Sacred Rivers

Confronting South Asia's Water Crisis

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Produktbeschreibung

One journalist's account of her 7-year journey through the Ganges river basin to explore the revered, yet highly polluted, rivers of South Asia.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 155mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 726g
• ISBN-13: 9780199845019
• ISBN-10: 0199845018
• Artikelnr.: 35331174

Autorenporträt

Cheryl Colopy researched and wrote Dirty, Sacred Rivers during seven years of travel and residence in South Asia. After completing a Ph.D. in medieval English literature at the University of California, Berkeley, and teaching in universities, she moved on to become an award-winning reporter at National Public Radio affiliate KQED in San Francisco, specializing in the environment.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter 1: Dirty, Sacred Rivers
Chapter 2: The Real Poop: How Rivers Become Sewers
Chapter 3: Delhi's Yamuna
Chapter 4: Melting Ice Rivers
Chapter 5: The Shrinking Third Pole
Chapter 6: In the Valley of Dhunge Dhara
Chapter 7: Melamchi River Blues
Chapter 8: More River Blues
Chapter 9: Belji of Dhulikhel
Chapter 10: The Sorrows of Bihar
Chapter 11: The Koshi's Revenge
Chapter 12: The Engineers
Chapter 13: The Garland
Chapter 14: Susu
Chapter 15: Beyond Barrages and Boundaries
Chapter 16: Poisoned Blessings
Chapter 17: Where the Rivers End