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Blue Revolution exposes the truth about the water crisis-driven by a tradition that has encouraged everyone, from homeowners to farmers to utilities, to tap more and more. But the book also offers much reason for hope. Cynthia Barnett argues that the best solution is also the simplest and least expensive: a water ethic for America. Just as the green movement helped build awareness about energy and sustainability, so a blue movement will reconnect Americans to their water.

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Barnett's clarion call to her fellow citizens imagines an America where it's ethically wrong to waste water. Using compelling stories from around the globe, she shows that America's future depends on understanding that, when it comes to water, cost is not the same as value. --Robert Glennon, professor of law at the University of Arizona and author of Unquenchable: America's Water Crisis and What To Do About It <br> Blue Revolution by Cynthia Barnett is an urgent yet ultimately encouraging survey of the water crisis. It is urgent because freshwater is an endangered resource that limits human development as well as the benefits that nature provides to people. It is encouraging that the roots of a new water ethic are found in the practices of millions of individuals, businesses and other organizations around the world. Barnett shows how good water use practices can go viral, with massive benefits for society and nature. Blue Revolution offers affordable, practical, down-to-eart

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"Cynthia Barnett is a long-time journalist whose awards include a national Sigma Delta Chi prize for investigative magazine reporting and eight Green Eyeshades, which recognize outstanding journalism in the Southeast. Her first book, ""Mirage: Florida and the Vanishing Water of the Eastern U.S.,"" won the gold medal for best nonfiction in the Florida Book Awards and was a ""One Region/One Book"" selection in thirty Florida counties. Barnett earned a master's degree in environmental history and was a Knight-Wallace Fellow at the University of Michigan, where she spent a year studying water. She lives with her family in Gainesville, Florida."

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