The three ages of water : prehistoric past, imperiled present, and a hope for the future

Peter Gleick guides us through the long, fraught history of our relationship to this precious resource. Water has shaped civilizations and empires, and driven centuries of advances in science and technology-from agriculture to aqueducts, steam power to space exploration-and progress in health and medicine. But the achievements that have propelled humanity forward also brought consequences, including unsustainable water use, ecological destruction...