The Great Lakes Water Wars / Edition 2

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Overview

The Great Lakes are the largest collection of fresh surface water on earth, and more than 40 million Americans and Canadians live in their basin. Will we divert water from the Great Lakes, causing them to end up like Central Asia's Aral Sea, which has lost 90 percent of its surface area and 75 percent of its volume since 1960? Or will we come to see that unregulated water withdrawals are ultimately catastrophic?

 

Peter Annin writes a fast-paced account of the people and stories behind these upcoming battles. Destined to be the definitive story for the general public as well as policymakers, The Great Lakes Water Wars is a balanced, comprehensive look behind the scenes at the conflicts and compromises that are the past-and future-of this unique resource.

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Editorial Reviews

Choice

"Well-written volume...offers an intriguing, comphrensive look...and should be a valuable reference for water and international policy makers, academics, and public officials . . . . Highly recommended."

- Choice

Dispatch.com

We are definitely leaving the century of oil behind, and we are entering the century of water. The value globally of fresh, potable water is expected to increase significantly.

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

“Excellent primer for getting up to speed on what could be one of the region's most important - and contentious - issues in the coming decades.”
- Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

— Dan Egan

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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781597266376
  • Publisher: Island Press
  • Publication date: 8/25/2009
  • Edition description: 1
  • Edition number: 2
  • Pages: 336
  • Sales rank: 589,690
  • Product dimensions: 5.90 (w) x 8.80 (h) x 0.90 (d)

Meet the Author

A former correspondent with Newsweek magazine,Peter Annin is associate director of the Institutes forJournalism and Natural Resources.

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Table of Contents

1 To have and have not 3
2 The Aral experiment 22
3 Rising temperatures, falling water? 40
4 Aversion to diversion 57
5 Reversing a river 85
6 Long Lac and Ogoki 110
7 Pleasing pleasant prairie 125
8 Sacrificing Lowell 139
9 Tapping Mud Creek 154
10 Akron gets the nod 172
11 The Nova Group and Annex 2001 193
12 Marching toward a compact 211
13 Waukesha worries 240
14 Who will win the war? 256
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