Aqua Shock
Water in Crisis
Bloomberg
An objective look at America's rapidly shrinking water
supply
Once believed to be a problem limited to America's southwest,
water shortages are now an issue coast to coast, from New England
to California. In Aqua Shock: The Water Crisis in America,
author Susan J. Marks provides a comprehensive analysis of the
current conflicts being waged over dwindling water supplies. She
presents the findings of university studies, think tanks, and
research groups, as well as the opinions of water experts,
including Peter Gleick, president of the Pacific Institute for
Studies in Development, Environment, and Security. The book
* Explains where our water comes from and who controls it, as
well as the cost of water on cash, commodities, and capitalism
* Describes the risks of running out of water
* Details how we can preserve and protect our most precious, yet
most undervalued natural resource
Right now, battles over water supplies rage across the country.
Aqua Shock is an objective look at how we arrived at this
crisis point and what we can do-and should be doing-to solve the
water crisis in America.
Introduction.
1 Liquid Gold.
2 Where Our Water Comes From: A Global Perspective.
3 The Disappearing Act.
4 Danger! Safe Water at Risk.
5 On Governing Water.
6 America's Water Gods.
7 The Cost of Water: Cash, Commodities, and Capitalism.
8 Can Our Water Be Saved?
Glossary.
Recommended Resources.
Index.
Policy Institute call Plan A--to a plan of action to
save our environment--Plan B. That plan includes
restoration of aquifers. We can arrest the fall in water
tables by increasing water productivity--getting the
most use from every drop of water that we do have. That
means, as Aqua Shock details, recycling, re-use,
conservation, and re-thinking how and where we use water
today. We can do it, but time is not on our side. We must act
now before it's too late."
--Lester R. Brown
President of Earth Policy Institute and author of Plan B
4.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization
"Susan J. Marks's book, Aqua Shock: The Water Crisis in
America, brings to our attention the dire straits that America
faces in the future because of water shortages and pollution of
existing sources. It is time that the American public awakens
to these conditions and takes steps, however costly, to change
them. Aqua Shock will help achieve this desired
goal."
--Joel A. Tarr
Richard S. Caliguiri University Professor of History and Policy,
Carnegie Mellon University
"Thankfully, Marks not only spells out in rich detail how and why
we as a country find ourselves in the present predicament, but also
how we can emerge from it and satisfy our thirst for water in a
safe and sane manner. It is within our power to solve this
problem, and we must."
--Ronald F. Poltak
Executive Director, New England Interstate Water Pollution Control
Commission
She spent more than a dozen years at the Denver Post,
primarily as Sunday business editor and special projects
editor/business. She has also written for BusinessWeek, the
Los Angeles Times, Forbes, Woman's
World, ColoradoBiz, and the United Communications Group.
Her work has received awards and recognition from local, regional,
and national organizations, including Gannett, the id="OLE_LINK1" name="OLE_LINK1">Colorado Press Association, and
the Society of American Business Editors and Writers. She lives in
Denver.