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Index
Cover
Description
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
Prologue: Under Pressure
Part I: Quality: What is in Our Water?
Chapter 1: The Defining Resource
Chapter 2: The Mystery of Newtown Creek
Chapter 3: Going to Extremes
Chapter 4: The Number One Menace
Chapter 5: The Treatment
Chapter 6: Brave New World
Chapter 7: From the Chickens to the Crabs
Chapter 8: The Missing Greenhouse Gas
Chapter 9: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back
Chapter 10: Time of Waste
Part II: Drought: A Creeping Disaster
Chapter 11: Water Scarcity
Chapter 12: The Age of Perpetual Drought
Chapter 13: Revenue Streams
Chapter 14: Drain
Chapter 15: The City That Wasn’t Supposed to Be
Chapter 16: The Dammed
Chapter 17: Snowpack: The Canary in a Coal Mine
Chapter 18: Water Wars
Part III: Flood: Come Hell Or High Water
Chapter 19: “A Twenty-First-Century Catastrophe”
Chapter 20: Forensic Engineering
Chapter 21: Keeping Our Feet Dry
Part IV: Water in the Twenty-First Century: Conflict and Innovation
Chapter 22: The Sacramento Delta: A Gordian Knot
Chapter 23: Liquidity: Privatization and the Rise of Big Water
Chapter 24: Water and Power
Chapter 25: “Pop Culture in a Bottle”
Chapter 26: The Battle for Bristol Bay
Chapter 27: In Search of a Drought-Proof Source
Conclusion The Ripple Effect
Epilogue “Water!”
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
Footnotes
Chapter 22: Note 1
Chapter 22: Note 2
Chapter 24: Note 1
Chapter 28: Note 1
Chapter 28: Note 2
Chapter 28: Note 3
Chapter 28: Note 4
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