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Where the Water Goes audiobook
- By: David Owen
- Narrator: Fred Sanders
- Category: Earth Sciences, Hydrology, Science
- Length: 9 hours 25 minutes
- Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
- Publish date: January 01, 2017
- Language: English
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Where the Water Goes Audiobook Summary
“Wonderfully written…Mr. Owen writes about water, but in these polarized times the lessons he shares spill into other arenas. The world of water rights and wrongs along the Colorado River offers hope for other problems.” —Wall Street Journal
An eye-opening account of where our water comes from and where it all goes.
The Colorado River is an essential resource for a surprisingly large part of the United States, and every gallon that flows down it is owned or claimed by someone. David Owen traces all that water from the Colorado’s headwaters to its parched terminus, once a verdant wetland but now a million-acre desert. He takes readers on an adventure downriver, along a labyrinth of waterways, reservoirs, power plants, farms, fracking sites, ghost towns, and RV parks, to the spot near the U.S.–Mexico border where the river runs dry.
Water problems in the western United States can seem tantalizingly easy to solve: just turn off the fountains at the Bellagio, stop selling hay to China, ban golf, cut down the almond trees, and kill all the lawyers. But a closer look reveals a vast man-made ecosystem that is far more complex and more interesting than the headlines let on.
The story Owen tells in Where the Water Goes is crucial to our future: how a patchwork of engineering marvels, byzantine legal agreements, aging infrastructure, and neighborly cooperation enables life to flourish in the desert—and the disastrous consequences we face when any part of this tenuous system fails.
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Where the Water Goes Full Details
| Narrator | Fred Sanders |
| Length | 9 hours 25 minutes |
| Author | David Owen |
| Category | |
| Publisher | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group |
| Release date | April 30, 2024 |
| ISBN | 9781524749668 |
Subjects
The publisher of the Where the Water Goes is Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. includes the following subjects: environmental, sustainability, environment, nature, water rights, water shortage, drought books, colorado, colorado river, conservation, water conservation, water crisis, drought, West, Western, American West, southwest, wetlands, dam, reservoir, travel narrative, irrigation, groundwater, water, climate change, scarcity, natural resources, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Denver, Phoenix, Hoover Dam, New Yorker, Water management, Hydrology, Contamination, Desalination, Canal, Delta, Mexico, Estuary, plumbing, river, infrastructure, technology, Science, Earth Sciences, Hydrology, Technology & Engineering, Environmental, Water Supply, Travel, United States, West, General The BISAC Subject Code is Earth Sciences, Hydrology, Science
Additional info
The publisher of the Where the Water Goes is Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. The imprint is Penguin Audio. It is supplied by Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. The ISBN-13 is 9781524749668.
Global Availability
This book is only available in the United States.
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