Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water, Revised Edition by Penguin $18.00
Newly updated, this timely history of the struggle to discover and control water in the American West is a tale of rivers diverted and damned, political corruption and intrigue, billion-dollar battles over water rights, and economic and ecological disaster. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. Photos.

When the Rivers Run Dry: Water--The Defining Crisis of the Twenty-first Century by Beacon Press $26.95
Throughout history, rivers have been our foremost source of fresh water both for agriculture and for individual consumption, but now economists say that by 2025 water scarcity will cut global food production by more than the current U.S. grain harvest. In this groundbreaking book, veteran science correspondent Fred Pearce focuses on the dire state of the world's rivers to provide our most...

Blue Covenant: The Global Water Crisis and the Coming Battle for the Right to Water by New Press $24.95
A passionate call to action from one of the leading voices in the global struggle for universal access to the earth's most vital element—a sequel to the acclaimed Blue Gold."Life requires access to clean water; to deny the right to water is to deny the right to life."—from the introduction to Blue CovenantIn their international bestseller Blue Gold, Maude Barlow and co-author Tony Clarke...

Introduction to Water in California (California Natural History Guides) by University of California Press $45.00
It takes 8 gallons of water to grow a tomato; 616 gallons to make a burger patty. In fact, the food each of us consumes per day represents an investment of 4,500 gallons of water, according to the California Farm Bureau. In this densely populated state where it rains only six months out of the year, where does all that water come from? This thoroughly engaging, concise book tells the story of...

Water Wars: Privatization, Pollution, and Profit by Between the Lines $57.99
Water is overused and abused globally. According to the World Bank, "the wars of the next century will be about water." Water usage doubles every twenty years, yet more than thirty countries face water stress and scarcity, and over a billion people lack adequate access to clean drinking water. At a time when Canadian corporations and politicians are planning the export of our precious resource,...

The Home Water Supply: How to Find, Filter, Store, and Conserve It by Storey Publishing, LLC $18.95
Knowledgeable discussion of home water systems, potential water problems, and practical, money-saving solutions.

Water Follies: Groundwater Pumping And The Fate Of America's Fresh Waters by Island Press $18.95
"...a book as rich in detail as it is devastating in its argument." -SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN"Water Follies deserves a place alongside the late Marc Reisner's classic Cadillac Desert." -ENVIRONMENT"a lively account of hydrology" -NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS"if you want to scare yourself silly, read Water Follies, by Robert Glennon. In it you'll learn how America is irrigating itself to death-just like...

A River Lost: The Life and Death of the Columbia by W. W. Norton & Company $25.00
The story of how well-meaning Americans dammed up the Columbia River in the North-Western United States, to produce cheap electricity and gardens blooming in the desert. This narrative of exploitation records how one of the West's most majestic rivers was sacrificed to economic advance.

Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond (Vol. 2): Water-Harvesting Earthworks by Rainsource Press $32.95
Turn water scarcity into water abundance!Earthworks are one of the easiest, least expensive, and most effective ways of passively harvesting and conserving multiple sources of water in the soil. Associated vegetation then pumps the harvested water back out in the form of beauty, food, shelter, wildlife habitat, and passive heating and cooling strategies, while controlling erosion, increasing soil...

Blue Gold: The Fight to Stop the Corporate Theft of the World's Water by New Press, The $18.95
The internationally acclaimed story of the corporate takeover of our most basic resource and the inevitable global water crisis.In this "chilling, in-depth examination of a rapidly emerging global crisis" (In These Times), Maude Barlow and Tony Clarke, two of the most active opponents to the privatization of water show how, contrary to received wisdom, water mainly flows uphill to the wealthy....