BOOK REVIEWS
The following nonfiction books will be of interest to users of Waterbucket.com as they all have Water as their main subject. They are not all specifically about British Columbia, but the history, ideas, problems, solutions and water ecology they discuss will be of interest to users of this website and all are pertinent to the province in one way or another.
Some books are more “scientific” than others; some are personal commentaries on the subject of water from the author’s life experiences.
Note: Most of these books are usually available from web book dealers or other local new or used book stores.. They are web-searchable by ISBN number, given in the review when available.
The following list is alphabetical within sub-categories: BC and Canada, USA, World.
BC and CANADA
EAU CANADA – The Future of Canada’s Water
Karen Bakker
2006
Mark Hume with Harvey Thommasen
1998
THE RUN OF THE RIVER – Portraits of Eleven British Columbia Rivers
Mark Hume
1992
Eric Collier
1959
S R R Cannings
1998
USA
Cadillac Desert – The American West and Its Disappearing Water
Mark Reisner
1986, revised 1993
HOOVER DAM – An American Adventure
Joseph E. Stevens
1988
MAYORDOMO – Chronicle of an Acequla in Northern New Mexico
Stanley Crawford
1988
RIVERS IN THE DESERT – William Mulholland and the Inventing of Los Angeles
Margaret Leslie Davis
1993
THE SALTON SEA – Yesterday and Today
Mildred de Stanley
1966
Compressed Air Magazine articles
1931 – 1935
Alice Outwater
1996
WORLD
DEEP WATER – The Epic Struggle over Dams, Displaced People, and the Environment
Jacques Leslie
2005
LAST OASIS – Facing Water Scarcity
Sandra Postel
1992
PILLAR OF SAND – Can the Irrigation Miracle Last ?
Sandra Postel
1999
Robin Clarke and Jannet Kind
2004
WATER – The Fate of Our Most Precious Resource
Marq De Villiers
2000, 2nd edition 2003
WATER – The Power, Promise, and Turmoil of North America’s Fresh Water
National Geographic Special Edition
November 1993
WATER WARS – Drought, Flood, Folly and the Politics of Thirst
Diane Raines Ward
June 2003
WHEN THE RIVERS RUN DRY – Water, The Defining Crisis of the 21st Century
Fred Pearce
2006
INSTRUCTIONAL
H.R. Vallentine
1967