Foreword / Peter Gleick The end of the Colorado : fishing with the Cucupá / Frank Clifford A river story : cleaning up the Nashua / Marion Stoddart Liquid assets on steep slopes : solving water shortages through ancient knowledge / Anupam Mishra Honest hope : searching for a new water ethic / Sandra Postel Respect for water : reflecting on a lifetime of environmental reporting / Fred Pearce Another Africa is possible : witnessing the consequences of Kenya's flower farms / Maude Barlow The unmentionables : talking about sanitation / Rose George Brides of the well : a short story / Shekhar Kapur A world that works : breaking places / Bill McKibben Photography journey : taking the long view at Mount Everest / Alton C. Byers What's in a name : monitoring the "miner's canary" in the Congo / Melanie Stiassny The fear of doing without : bringing fresh water and new ideas to the Dominican Republic / Ellsworth Havens Water man : reviving arid villages / Rajendra Singh A ride for nature : traveling the West by horseback / William "Waterway" Marks Water changes everything : building a charity / Scott Harrison Save what's left : teaching kids to love rain forests / Lynne Cherry To save a gull : taxing yourself / Alex Matthiessen Dynamic for change : recognizing the importance of the watershed / Christine Todd Whitman The páramos of Ayabaca : defending water and place / Jorge Recharte Tending the land : reclaiming our food / Frederick Kirschenmann A walk along the river : caring for watersheds / Dave Rosgen On the heads of women : safeguarding water / Kathy Robb Two noble truths : the ultraviolet solution to clean water / Ashok Gadgil Nature abhors a monopoly : how we, like Kalahari bushmen, can trade our human right to water / James Workman Water is life : stories from a blue planet / Alexandra Cousteau