The three ages of water : prehistoric past, imperiled present, and a hope for the future
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New York : PublicAffairs, [2023].
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Published
New York : PublicAffairs, [2023].
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x, 356 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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English

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-342) and index.
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"In The Three Ages of Water, expert on water resources and climate change Peter Gleick guides us through the long, fraught history of our most valuable resource. Spread over a ten-thousand-year human history, it begins with the fundamental evolutionary role water had in shaping early civilizations and empires, crests to the scientific and social revolutions that created modern society, and spills into the global water crisis of depleted groundwater reserves and ubiquitous pollution. Agriculture thrived only after irrigation; cities were possible only with clean water supplied from aqueducts and wastewater safely removed; the industrial revolution was initially dependent on steam. Many of the world's great cities - London, Rio, Buenos Aires, New York, Rome, Athens, Venice - are water cities, where ships made possible seafaring, explorations, commerce and exchange. Even the most landlocked cities of the world owe their existence to water - in the form of lakes and rivers. Fresh water is never more valuable than when it is missing: wildfires in California, British Columbia and Siberia thrived because of desiccation. Flint, MI, was slowly poisoned by a decayed source of safe drinking water. The Cuyahoga River caught fire in 1968, the Meiyu River, China, in 2014, the Bellandur Lake, India, in 2015; they all looked apocalyptic. We now face a fight to preserve clean water globally, a fight we cannot afford to lose"--,Provided by publisher.

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Gleick, P. H. (2023). The three ages of water: prehistoric past, imperiled present, and a hope for the future (First edition.). PublicAffairs.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Gleick, Peter H.. 2023. The Three Ages of Water: Prehistoric Past, Imperiled Present, and a Hope for the Future. PublicAffairs.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Gleick, Peter H.. The Three Ages of Water: Prehistoric Past, Imperiled Present, and a Hope for the Future PublicAffairs, 2023.

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Gleick, Peter H.. The Three Ages of Water: Prehistoric Past, Imperiled Present, and a Hope for the Future First edition., PublicAffairs, 2023.

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