Water: The Fate of Our Most Precious Resource

An award-winning, alarming account of "one of the central challenges facing civilization" (The Washington Post Book World).

Offering ecological, historical, and cultural perspectives, this "well-researched and thought-provoking book" (Minneapolis Tribune) explains how we are using, misusing, and abusing our planet's most vital resource.

Reporting from hot spots as diverse as China, Las Vegas, and the Middle East, where swelling populations and unchecked development have stressed fres...