02714cam a2200385 i 4500 941836826 TxAuBib 20230818120000.0 221113s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2022052754 9781541702271 $30.00 1541702271 $30.00 TxAuBib rda Gleick, Peter H.,. The three ages of water : prehistoric past, imperiled present, and a hope for the future / Peter Gleick. First edition. New York : PublicAffairs, [2023] x, 356 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-342) and index. "In The Three Ages of Water, expert on water resources and climate change Peter Gleick guides us through the long, fraught history of our most valuable resource. Spread over a ten-thousand-year human history, it begins with the fundamental evolutionary role water had in shaping early civilizations and empires, crests to the scientific and social revolutions that created modern society, and spills into the global water crisis of depleted groundwater reserves and ubiquitous pollution. Agriculture thrived only after irrigation; cities were possible only with clean water supplied from aqueducts and wastewater safely removed; the industrial revolution was initially dependent on steam. Many of the world's great cities - London, Rio, Buenos Aires, New York, Rome, Athens, Venice - are water cities, where ships made possible seafaring, explorations, commerce and exchange. Even the most landlocked cities of the world owe their existence to water - in the form of lakes and rivers. Fresh water is never more valuable than when it is missing: wildfires in California, British Columbia and Siberia thrived because of desiccation. Flint, MI, was slowly poisoned by a decayed source of safe drinking water. The Cuyahoga River caught fire in 1968, the Meiyu River, China, in 2014, the Bellandur Lake, India, in 2015; they all looked apocalyptic. We now face a fight to preserve clean water globally, a fight we cannot afford to lose"-- Provided by publisher. 20230818. Water quality management. Water-supply. Water security. Water History. Water quality management. fast Water-supply. fast Water security. fast Water. fast Earth (Planet.) fast History. fast