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 ...
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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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Water, A Natural History is a comprehensive whole ecosystem viewpoint of water systems starting with beavers, which does seem startling in a book with the title Water. However it is craftily put together in a very interesting story about the history and significance of an individual animal in the formation of the landscape and I for one did not know that much about beavers. The book also incorporates a historical look at the changing landscape of the United States as different groups used the land for their own benefit. As the story shifts focus from the beavers to other topics it does so interchangeably and smoothly. I think this book should be required reading for any intro level hydrology class and portions of it for high schools all across the country. I?ve never read something that included entire systems so fully in such an enjoyable manner. I learned so much from this book! Overall, I could not more highly recommend this book !
