Water: Life-Force & Resource

Water is the most common, and also the most important substance on Earth. We are hypnotically attracted to its simplicity, purity and transparency, as well as its astonishing physical behaviour, strucural vibrations and ordered flow, not to mention its amazing therapeutic virtues.

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.