Additional Readings

Abell, R. A. et al. 1999. Freshwater Ecoregions of North America. Covelo, CA: Island Press. A comprehensive assessment of the types and status of freshwater ecoregions.

Abramovitz, Janet N. 1996. Imperiled Waters, Impoverished Future: The Decline of Freshwater Ecosystems. Worldwatch Paper 128. Washington, DC: Worldwatch Institute.

Agarwal, Anil and Sunita Narain.1997. "The Decline and Revival of Traditional Water Harvesting systems in India." The Ecologist 27(3): 112-116. Reviving centuries-old water harvesting techniques in India could offer an alternative to large dams and water development projects.

Anderson, Terry L. and Peter J. Hill, eds. 1996. Water Marketing: The Next Generation. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. Discusses market incentives for water conservation.

Black, Peter E. 1996. Watershed Hydrology, 2nd ed. Covelo, CA: Island Press. An introduction to hydrology.

Cicin-Sain, Bililana and Robert W. Knecht. 2000. The Future of U. S. Ocean Policy: Choices for a New Century. Covelo, CA: Island Press. An analysis of the most important ocean and coastal issues facing the nation.

Clarke, Robin. 1993. Water: The International Crisis. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. A comprehensive look at a vital resource.

Collier, M., et al. 1996. "Dams and Rivers: Primer on the Downstream Effects of Dams." Circular 1126 U.S. Geological Survey, Branch of Information Services, Tuscon, Ariz and Denver, Colo.

Davie, Timothy. 2002. Fundamentals of Hydrology. Routledge Press. An introduction to the study of water resources and hydrological processes.

Dixon, J.A., et al. 1989. Dams and the Environment: Considerations in World Bank Projects. Washington, D.C.: World Bank. The bank often has been criticized for its role in financing big dams.

Donahue, John M. and Barbara Rose Johnston, (eds). 1997. Water, Culture, and Power: Local Struggles in a Global Context. Covelo, CA: Island Press. Control of water resources is a critical issue in many areas.

Driscoll, Charles T., et al. 2001. "Acidic Deposition in the Northeastern United States: Sources and Inputs, Ecosystem Effects, and Management Strategies." BioScience 51(3): 180-199. Although acid rain has been diminished in many places, it remains a serious problem in parts of New England.

Duncan, D. J. 2000. "Salmon's Second Coming." Sierra 85(2): 30-41. Conservationists argue that obsolete dams on the Snake and Columbia Rivers should be removed.

Egbert, G. D. & Ray, R. D. 2000. "Significant dissipation of tidal energy in the deep ocean inferred from satellite alimeter data". Nature 405:775 (2000). About a third of the energy that the Moon supplies to the sea goes into the deep ocean, causing turbulence and mixing that drives ocean circulation.

Ezzell, Carol. 2001. "The Himba and the Dam." Scientific American 284(6): 80-89. A proposed dam in Namibia would drive a self-sufficient tribe of indigenous people off their ancestral lands.

Fiege, Mark. 2000. Irrigated Eden : The Making of an Agricultural Landscape in the American West (Weyerhaeuser Environmental Book). Univ. of Washington Press. A study of the coming of irrigation to southern Idaho's Snake River valley.

Fischetti, Mark. 2001. "Drowning New Orleans." Scientific American 285(4): 76-86. A major hurricane could swamp the sinking city under 20 feet of water, killing thousands.

Foster, Stephen, et al. 2000. Groundwater in Rural Development Technical Paper No. 463. World Bank, Washington, DC,

Fradkin, Philip L. 1996. A River No More: The Colorado River and the West. Univ. of California Press. The damming of the Colorado River and its impact on the American West.

Franklin, Chris. 1997. "Let the Colorado River Run Free." Earth Island Journal 12(2):23. States the case for draining Glen Canyon.

Gleick, Peter. H. 2000. The World's Water 2000-2001. Covelo, CA: Island Press. A comprehensive catalog of freshwater resources, dam construction, water law, and water conflicts.

Gleick, Peter. H. 2001. "Making Every Drop Count." Scientific American 284 (2): 40-45. An overview of the world's freshwater supplies.

Haddad, B. M. 2000. Rivers of Gold: Designing Markets to Allocate Water in California. Covelo, CA: Island Press. A discussion of market-based approaches to water conservation.

Harvell, C. D., et al. 1999. "Emerging Marine Diseases-Climate Links and Anthropogenic Factors." Science (US) 285: 1505-1510. September 3, 1999. Pollution and global warming are causing new examples of marine diseases.

Helle, I.D., et al. 1998. "Long-Term Growth Enhancement of Baldcypress (Taxodium distichum) from Municipal Wastewater Application." Environmental Management 22(1):119-127. Trees can effectively remove aquatic pollutants.

Hobbie, J. 2000. Estuarine Science. Covelo, CA: Island Press. An overview of the importance of and threats to estuaries.

Juhler, R.K., S.R. Sørensen, & L. Larsen. 2001. "Analysing transformation products of herbicide residues in environmental samples." Water Research 35(6): 1371-1378. Outlines techniques for assaying pollutants in ground water at parts per billion levels.

Koberstein, Paul. 1997. "Dam Slayers Have Their Day." Inner Voice September/October 1997: 16-18. Across the U.S., there is growing support for removing dams that block fish habitat. This is one of six articles in a special issue on river management.

Kumar, M. Dinesh & O.P. Singh 2001. "Market instruments for demand management in the face of scarcity and overuse of water in Gujarat, Western India." Water Policy 3(5): 387-403. A lion's share of the scarce water in this area goes for irrigating cash crops at the cost of subsistence farming and rural drinking, while the pricing of canal water and electricity used for groundwater pumping is highly inefficient and inequitable.

Lichatowich, Jim. 2001. Salmon Without Rivers: A History of the Pacific Salmon Crisis. Covelo, CA: Island Press. Surveys both the biology and politics of the salmon decline in western rivers.

Lipták, Béla. 1997. "Judgment Day for the Danube." Earth Island Journal 12(3): 25. Report from The Hague on the world's first environmental trial.

Lynch-Stieglitz, J., W. B. Curry, & N. Slowey. 1999. "Weaker Gulf Stream in the Florida Straits during the Last Glacial Maximum." Nature 402: 644 (1999). During the last Ice Age, some 12,000 years ago, the deep-water current transported far less water than it does today. Indeed the sinking of dense water at the Poles may have stopped entirely.

Malle, Karl-Geert. 1996. "Cleaning Up the River Rhine." Scientific American 274(1): 70-75. An encouraging case study of international efforts to control water pollution.

McPhaden, M. J. & D. Zhang. 2002. "Slowdown of the meridional overturning circulation in the upper Pacific Ocean." Nature 415: 603- 608 (2002). A recent slowing in the circulation of Pacific Ocean waters could have raised Pacific sea surface temperatures and may be affecting global climate.

McCully, P. 1996. Silenced Rivers: The Ecology and Politics of Large Dams. London: Zed Books. A discussion of environmental effects of dams.

Outwater, Alice. 1997. Water: A Natural History. Basic Books. A popular introduction to where our water comes from and where it goes after we use it.

Perry, James A. and Elizabeth Vanderklein. 1996. Water Quality: Management of a Natural Resource. Covelo, CA: Island Press. An excellent introduction to international water quality issues.

Pielou, E. C. 1998. Fresh Water. Univ. of Chicago Press. A survey of our water supplies and how we use them.

Postel, Sandra. 1997. Last Oasis : Facing Water Scarcity. W. W. Norton & Co. A Worldwatch Environmental Alert Series publication describing global resource limitations.

Postel, Sandra. 2001. "Growing Food with Less Water." Scientific American 284(2): 46-51. Agriculture is the largest consumer of freshwater in most countries. How can this precious resource be conserved and extended?

Qing, Dai. 1998. The River Dragon Has come: The Three Gorges Dam and the Fate of China's Yangtze River and Its People. Probe International/International Rivers Network. Rare public criticism of top Chinese authorities for their decision to build the Three Gorges Dam.

Reisner. Marc. 1993. Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water Penguin Books. A fascinating look at western water issues.

Rothenberg, David and Mara Ulvaeus, ed. 2001. Writing on Water. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. A collection of essays on all aspects of water.

Roy, Arundhati. 2000. "Before the Flood." The Amicus Journal 22(3): 12-18. A famous novelist writes about the Narmada valley, its villagers, and the tyranny of big dams.

Runyan, Curtis. 2001. "Liberating Rivers." World Watch 14(1): 31-40. An essay together with excerpts from Arundhati Roy and Patrick McCully on why we should remove some dams.

Shirley, Mary. 2002. Thirsting for Efficency. Elsevier Pub. An economic theory of water that calls for institutional, political and economic reform.

Shiva, Vandana. 2002. Water Wars: Privatization, Pollution and Profit. South End Press. Cowboy economics now govern the world's fresh water supply putting billions of people at risk of insufficient access to clean water.

Tortajada, Cecilia 2001. "First meeting of the Club of Tokyo for a global water policy dialogue, Tokyo, 25-26 September, 2000." Water Policy 3(5): 359-362.

Van Slyke, Lyman P. 1988. Yangtze: Nature, History, and the River. Addison-Wesley Pub. A good introduction to the natural and human history of the Yangtze.

Villiers, Marq De. 2001. Water: The Fate of Our Most Precious Resource. Mariner Books. Examines the checkered history of humankind's water management.

Wentz, Patty. 2002. "River of a thousand promises." On Earth vol. 23(4): 14-19. A good description of the water struggles in the Klamath Basin.

White, Richard. 1996. The Organic Machine: The Remaking of the Columbia River. Hill and Wang. A critical history of how the Columbia River basin was transformed.

Wilkinson, Charles F. 1993. Crossing the Next Meridian: Land, Water, and the Future of the West. Island Press. Argues that American land-use and water laws have been become outmoded and must be radically rethought to protect the environment,

Wolf, Aaron T., et al. 1999. "International River Basins of the World." WaterResources Development 15(4): 387-427. A valuable review of freshwater resources.

Worster, Donald. 1985. Rivers of Empire: Water, Aridity, and the Growth of the American West. Random House. A masterful account of water and the settling of the American west.