World Water Issues - Reading List

 

The following titles are available through the Old Colony Library Network.  Call numbers are provided to help you locate them.  An asterisk (*) indicates that a member of the Environmental Committee has read the book and provided notes on the book in the Water Resources binder in the Elliott Room.  

 

Cadillac Desert:  The American West and its disappearing water.   Marc Reisner. Penguin Books, 1993, 1986. 

333.91 REI - Braintree

                  Read by June Phillips – Jan 2005

 

* Last Oasis:  Facing water scarcity.  Sandra Postel [World Environmental Alert Series, 1997, 1992]

                  TD 345.P67 – Massasoit Comm Coll. 

Read by June Phillips – Dec 2004

 

Reflections in Bullough’s Pond:  Economy and ecosystem in New England.  Diana Muir.   University

Press of New England, 2000. 

330.974 MUI - Braintree

 

A River Lost:  The life and death of the Columbia.  Blaine Harden.  W.W. Norton & Co., 1996. 

                  333.91 HAR

 

* Tapped Out:  The coming world crisis in water and what we can do about it.   Paul Simon. Welcome

Rain, 1998, 2001. 

333.91 SIM - Braintree

                  Read by June Phillips - Dec 2004

 

Water, The Drop of Life.   Peter Swanson.  Northword Press, 2001.

333.91 SWA - Braintree

 

* Water:  The fate of our most precious resource, Marq DeVilliers.  Houghton-Mifflin, 2000. 

333.91 DEV - Braintree

                  Read by Mary Mitchell – Dec 2004

 

* Water Wars: Drought, flood, folly, and the politics of thirst.  Diane Raines Ward.  Riverhead Books,

2002.

333.91 WAR – Plymouth/Sharon

Read by Mary Mitchell – Jan 2005

 

* Watershed :  The undamming of America.  Elizabeth Grossman.  Counterpoint, 2002. 

333.9114 GRO - Braintree

                  Read by Marge Kearns  - Dec 2004

                 

* Whose Water Is It?  The unquenchable thirst of a water-hungry world.  Bernadette McDonald and

Douglas Jehl, editors.  National Geographic Society, 2003. 

333.91 WHO - Plymouth

 

The following titles are also available for loan within the All Souls Community  -  See Mary Mitchell

 

Plan B:  Rescuing a planet under stress and a civilization in trouble.  Lester R. Brown.  Earth

Policy Institute, 2003. 

333.7 BR - Norwell

 

Water Atlas:  A unique visual analysis of the world’s most critical resource.  Robin Clarke and

Jannet King.  The New Press, 2004. 

333.91 CLA - Stoughton