Back to the Well

Introduction: A Few Assertions

Part One: Assessment

1 The Dismal Arithmetic of Water

2 The State of Our Groundwater

3 Rivers and Lakes in Trouble

Part Two: Issues

4 Who Owns Water?

5 Privatization and Its Discontents

6 Are Dams Really That Bad?

7 What We Don’t Know about Fracking

8 Bulk Water Transfers

Part Three: Complications

9 Minimizing Farming’s Water Needs

10 Climate Change

11 More People, Using Ever More Water

Part Four: Flashpoints

12 Scarcity, Yes; Conflicts, Maybe

Part Five: Solutions

13 Reframing the Debate

14 The Way of the Engineer

15 Soft-Path Solutions

Conclusion: Crossover Solutions

Selected Bibliography