Drought & Water Supply

We have disrupted the natural water cycle for centuries in an effort to control water for our own prosperity. Yet every year, recovery from drought...

After a cascade of failures left residents of Flint, Michigan, without a reliable and affordable supply of safe drinking water, citizens spent year...

Freshwater scarcity is a critical challenge, with social, economic, political and environmental consequences. Water crises in Australia have alread...

The West without Water documents the tumultuous climate of the American West over twenty millennia, with tales of past droughts and deluges and pre...

Remarkable satellite photographs show where water is - or isn't - and how we are using it. Water is in crisis. We are in crisis. All life depends o...

Supplying water to millions is not simply an engineering and logistical challenge. As David Soll shows in his finely observed history of the nation...

A journey through time and around the world to uncover water's true nature, and how it can help us adapt to climate change. Trouble with water in...

The West without Water documents the tumultuous climate of the American West over twenty millennia, with tales of past droughts and deluges and pre...

The Indus Waters Treaty is considered a key example of India-Pakistan cooperation, but less has been said about its critical influence on state-mak...

Everywhere in the world communities and nations organize themselves in relation to water. We divert water from rivers, lakes, and aquifers to ou...

Water is our most vital resource, yet few understand even the basics of watershed ecology. This new edition has been updated to reflect growing env...

The combination of cheap, easily available materials, margin for error, suitability for amateurs and flexibility in terms of size and shape, make f...

Updated edition of a comprehensive introduction to the economics of water management, with self-contained treatment of all necessary economic conce...

Illuminating. --New York Times WIRED's Required Science Reading 2016 When we think of water in the West, we think of conflict and crisis. I...

Water, water, everywhere. Or is it? The Sound of Thirst explains the urgency of taking water and waste water seriously in an age where good managem...

FULLY UPDATED FOR 2019 We cannot live without water. But with 7.5 billion people competing for this single unevenly-distributed resource, the plan...