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.

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 family uses about 400 gallons of water a day. In The Water-Wise Home, Laura Allen concisely explains the current state of the water crisis (“water is destiny”) and teaches homeowners how to create a fully water-wise landscape.

The final book in Maude Barlows Blue trilogy, Blue Future is a powerful, penetrating, and timely look at the global water crisis and what we can do to prevent it. The global water crisis has dramatically deepened.