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• Commended for Books for a Better Life (Green) 2011
• Commended for PROSE (Earth Science) 2011

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By illuminating the central issues--water quality, water quantity, ownership, waste, infrastructure--through the tales of individuals who wrestle with them, Alex Prud'homme makes a vast and desperately serious topic flow beautifully through the rocks and hard places that our planet is caught between. --John Seabrook, New Yorker staff writer and author of Flash of Genius

Both drought and flood are on the rise, and Alex Prud'homme, in this fine new account, helps you understand why. We've taken the planet's hydrology for granted for the 10,000 years of human civilization; that's a luxury we can no longer afford. --Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature and Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet

A tightly written, thoroughly researched, almost encyclopedic book. -- The Cleveland Plain Dealer

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