Replenish: The Virtuous Cycle of Water and Prosperity
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Sandra Postel. (2017). Replenish: The Virtuous Cycle of Water and Prosperity. Island Press.

Sandra Postel. 2017. Replenish: The Virtuous Cycle of Water and Prosperity. Island Press.

Sandra Postel, Replenish: The Virtuous Cycle of Water and Prosperity. Island Press, 2017.

Sandra Postel. Replenish: The Virtuous Cycle of Water and Prosperity. Island Press, 2017.

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   • bioText: Sandra Postel is director of the Global Water Policy Project and co-creator of Change the Course, the national water stewardship initiative awarded the 2017 US Water Prize for restoring billions of gallons of water to depleted rivers and wetlands. From 2009-2015, she served as Freshwater Fellow of the National Geographic Society. Postel is author of Pillar of Sand: Can the Irrigation Miracle Last? and Last Oasis: Facing Water Scarcity, the basis for a PBS documentary. Her work has appeared in Science, Natural History, and Best American Science and Nature Writing.
     
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"Nothing is more important to life than water, and no one knows water better than Sandra Postel. Replenish is a wise, sobering, but ultimately hopeful book." —Elizabeth Kolbert

"Remarkable." —New York Times Book Review

"Clear-eyed treatise...Postel makes her case eloquently." —Booklist, starred review

"An informative, purposeful argument." —Kirkus

We have disrupted the natural water cycle for centuries in an effort to control water for our own prosperity. Yet every year, recovery from droughts and floods costs billions of dollars, and we spend billions more on dams, diversions, levees, and other feats of engineering. These massive projects not only are risky financially and environmentally, they often threaten social and political stability. What if the answer was not further control of the water cycle, but repair and replenishment?

Sandra Postel takes readers around the world to explore water projects that work with, rather than against, nature's rhythms. In New Mexico, forest rehabilitation is safeguarding drinking water; along the Mississippi River, farmers are planting cover crops to reduce polluted runoff; and in China, "sponge cities" are capturing rainwater to curb urban flooding.

Efforts like these will be essential as climate change disrupts both weather patterns and the models on which we base our infrastructure. We will be forced to adapt. The question is whether we will continue to fight the water cycle or recognize our place in it and take advantage of the inherent services nature offers. Water, Postel writes, is a gift, the source of life itself. How will we use this greatest of gifts?

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     Starred review from October 1, 2017
     The solution might not be as sexy as throwing large sums of money to access quality water. What if, argues Postel (The Last Oasis: Facing Water Scarcity, 2014), director of the Global Water Policy Project, we conserved this essential resource in innovative ways and explore other smart ways of using water instead? The galvanizing reasons behind Postel's push for water conservation should be common knowledge to most. After all, many will agree with her thesis that water crises, the biggest global risk to society, require a new understanding of our relationship to freshwaterand a new way of thinking about how we use, manage, and value it. Eschewing mere hand-wringing about climate change, this clear-eyed treatise hops around the world outlining real-world solutions that are already being implemented to affect change on the ground. Postel makes her case eloquently, citing among other success stories the revival of the Colorado River Delta and the Loess Plateau restoration in China. Such inspirational examples, supplemented by an efficient overview of water-conservation ideas (sewer mining, anyone?), give cause to celebrate small pockets of hope in our fight to save the planet's precious and vulnerable freshwater.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2017, American Library Association.)

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"Nothing is more important to life than water, and no one knows water better than Sandra Postel. Replenish is a wise, sobering, but ultimately hopeful book." —Elizabeth Kolbert

"Remarkable." —New York Times Book Review

"Clear-eyed treatise...Postel makes her case eloquently." —Booklist, starred review

"An informative, purposeful argument." —Kirkus

We have disrupted the natural water cycle for centuries in an effort to control water for our own prosperity. Yet every year, recovery from droughts and floods costs billions of dollars, and we spend billions more on dams, diversions, levees, and other feats of engineering. These massive projects not only are risky financially and environmentally, they often threaten social and political stability. What if the answer was not further control of the water cycle, but repair and replenishment?

Sandra Postel takes...

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Chapter 1. Water Everywhere and Nowhere
Chapter 2. Back to Life
Chapter 3. Put Watersheds to Work
Chapter 4. Make Room for Floods
Chapter 5. Bank It for a Dry Day
Chapter 6. Fill the Earth
Chapter 7. Conserve in the City
Chapter 8. Clean It Up
Chapter 9. Close the Loop
Chapter 10. Let It Flow
Chapter 11. Rescue Desert Rivers
Chapter 12. Share
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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