Replenish The Virtuous Cycle of Water and Prosperity /

• Main Author: Postel, Sandra (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Washington, DC : Island Press/Center for Resource Economics : Imprint: Island Press, 2017.
• Subjects: Environment.; Hydrology.; Environmental policy.; Environment, general.; Environmental Policy.; Hydrology/Water Resources.

For centuries, we have disrupted the natural water cycle in an effort to control water for our own prosperity. Every year, recovery from droughts and floods costs billions of dollars, and we spend billions more on irrigation, dams, sanitation plants, and other feats of engineering. We have reached a...