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15/100Critics
61/100Scholars
Author:
Giulio Boccaletti
Publisher:
Pantheon
Date:
September 14, 2021
Provides a framework through which we can more fully understand society's relationship to, and fundamental reliance on, the most elemental substance on our planet.
What The Reviewers Say
Brimming with ideas and unexpected correlations, Water is far more than a biography of its nominal subject. Given society’s ancient, tangled relationship with water, the book stands as a compelling history of civilization itself, from its earliest days to the present, with implications for the future, as it offers a disturbing glimpse of a time when our association with water is poised to enter a particularly perilous phase.
[Boccaletti] identifies river systems that defined and sustained early civilizations (the Tigris and Euphrates, the Nile, the Amazon, the Yangtze) and convincingly argues that ancient and contemporary political and economic systems were developed, in part, to address the ownership and control of water and govern the fair and effective use of water as a public good.
... expert.
... informative if dry.
