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Unquenchable: America's Water Crisis And What To Do About It (2009)

by Robert Glennon(Favorite Author)

3.69 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

1597264369 (ISBN13: 9781597264365)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

Island Press

review 1: What an amazing book! I learned so much from this read about such a wide range of water-related topics: where Americans in different regions get their water; the connection (cycle, really) between energy and water; why dams and diversions and endless well-drilling have finally caught up to us; the catch-22 of bottled water versus what's still in our city drinking water; conservation tips and larger-scale hope on the horizon for making the best of the water we have.Who knew that our beloved internet requires ginormo, water-cooled "server farms"? All my Goodreads reviews and blog posts and emails and shared pictures sit out there on some server, sucking down electricity and gazillion ccfs of water. If I really wanted to be environmentally correct, I should curtail my cyber l... moreife!Reading UNQUENCHABLE opened my eyes to the complex job politicians and citizens will have sorting out the growing issues around water, who gets it, what it costs, and why. Glennon does a thorough job covering the historical and geological reasons that things are the way they are, as well as alerting us to the crisis ahead if things don't get dealt with. I came away grateful that my city separates its storm and wastewater systems, that my state has plenty of water and rainfall for now, and that I don't live downstream from other large cities whose meds and antibiotics can't be purified out of the drinking water. I also came away wanting to take shorter showers, to capture perfectly good water running down the drain, and to replace my old washer with a more water- and energy-efficient model.Highly recommended.
review 2: Having lived in Arizona for sixteen years and being familiar with the importance of water conservation, I should like this book. I want to like this book. But in spite of all my desire I disliked reading it. It reads like an MTV produced book jumping from trivia to trivia without forming a cohesive argument in any chapter - although the author attempts to do so. And I recognize at least one factual error in one of his accounts. Something should be said about his insistence on progressive liberal solutions to water scarcity issues but I'm too apolitical and, at least currently while residing in the Land of Ten Thousand Lakes, too waterlogged to care. less

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