· THE MAKING OF AN AMERICAN WATER CRISIS. by Seamus McGraw ‧ RELEASE DATE: May 9, A hard look at a hard problem: finding sufficient water to live in a place without much of it. Texas, writes journalist McGraw (Betting the Farm on a Drought: Stories from the Front Lines of Climate Change, , etc.), sits at the same latitude as the Sahara and has much of that desert . · In A Thirsty Land: The Making of an American Water Crisis, Seamus McGraw plunges deep into the world of water policy and asks fundamental questions about who has a right to the state’s water and Estimated Reading Time: 9 mins. · A Thirsty Land The Making of an American Water Crisis by Seamus McGraw. Joining the debates begun by Cadillac Desert and Water Is For Fighting Over, A Thirsty Land ranges from epic struggles over water usage in the face of climate change and population growth to innovative technologies for increasing the supply.
[Seamus McGraw] -- "As a changing climate threatens the whole country with deeper droughts and more furious floods that put ever more people and The most comprehensive--and comprehensible--book on contemporary water issues, A Thirsty Land delves deep into the challenges faced not just. Seamus McGraw is the author of several books, including The End of Country: Dispatches from the Frack Zone, and Betting the Farm on a Drought: Stories from the Front Line of Climate Change. His latest book, A Thirsty Land: The Making of An American Water Crisis, is out now. A Thirsty Land: The Making of an American Water Crisis by Seamus McGraw. Or maybe Amazon recommended A Thirsty Land because the AI (Alexa?) knows that I am something of a water scarcity nerd. One of the best nonfiction books that I have ever read is Marc Reisner's ().
Seamus McGraw goes to the taproots, talking to farmers, ranchers, businesspeople, and citizen activists, as well as to politicians and government employees. Their stories provide chilling evidence that Texas—and indeed the nation—is not ready for the next devastating drought, the next catastrophic flood. Seamus McGraw is the author of a few books, including the critically acclaimed The End of Country: Dispatches from the Frack Zone, and the forthcoming Betting the Farm on a Drought: Stories from the Front Line of Climate Change, due in April from The University of Texas Press. THE MAKING OF AN AMERICAN WATER CRISIS. by Seamus McGraw ‧ RELEASE DATE: May 9, A hard look at a hard problem: finding sufficient water to live in a place without much of it. Texas, writes journalist McGraw (Betting the Farm on a Drought: Stories from the Front Lines of Climate Change, , etc.), sits at the same latitude as the Sahara and has much of that desert region’s aridity—so much so that in any given year, “it is more likely that a significant drought will occur.
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