Water: Life-Force & Resource

With subtle wit, provocative language, and wisdom gleaned from myth, science, and religion, David Appelbaum sees in water the key to harmonious living, oneness with nature, and perception of the essential. Ultimately, Notes on Water is about the journey of surrender to the forces of vitality and spirituality.

Water is in crisis. We are in crisis. All life depends on water and we are running out of it, but where exactly is the water and where is it going? This book provides new insight into the world of water and contributes to a wider understanding of the current predicament.

Acclaimed author and award-winning scientist and activist Vandana Shiva lucidly details the severity of the global water shortage, calling the water crisis the most pervasive, most severe, and most invisible dimension of the ecological devastation of the earth.

This twentieth-anniversary edition of the world’s best-selling greywater book features a dozen more pages, complete information on the “laundry to landscape” system, new color plates, extensive revisions to every page, and dozens of new photos and figures.

The average North American lifestyle is kept afloat by about 2,000 gallons of H2O a day. The numbers are shocking.