Water: A Natural History

Rating:
Summary: Informative, insightful and interesting
Review: Yes, a book about water that makes sense. She begins with the beaver and the demand for its pelt in Europe and threads her way west through the exploitation of North America and on ... and brings us back to end her story in my local sewer plant. I very much enjoyed her subject and her style of writing. She makes her point clearly. She knows how water flows.

I finished her book with a greater respect for water, for its sacradness and the inter-connectedness of all things. How "western civilization" believes it has the "right" to make the world in its image at any cost. Water: A Natural History affirms my belief that American has yet to realize the devastating affects its taming of the west will cost.

Now I have another standard to use when considering my choice of actions with water use and my relationships with the world I live in together with you.