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Publisher
Oxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN-10
0199845018
ISBN-13
9780199845019
eBay Product ID (ePID)
114073254

Product Key Features

Book Title
Dirty, Sacred Rivers : Confronting South Asia's Water Crisis
Number of Pages
416 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2012
Topic
Environmental Science (See Also Chemistry / Environmental), Natural Resources
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Nature, Science
Author
Cheryl Colopy
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
1.1 in
Item Weight
24.7 Oz
Item Length
9.3 in
Item Width
6.1 in

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LCCN
2012-005796
Reviews
Renewable Natural Resources Foundation 2013 Excellence in Journalism Award "Colopy offers a whirlwind tour both beautiful and troubling.... [she] interacts as a Westerner in the South Asian world with grace, and shares what she has learned with thoughtful clarity." -- Publisher's Weekly "an important addition to the documentation of the ecological impact of population growth and development in South Asia." -- Library Journal "The book doesn't read like an academic treatise, instead with her descriptions of the landscapes and the colourful characters she meets along the way, it feels more like a travelogue told in the first person. It would be of interest to even those who are not very interested in rivers. ... Calopy's book should be essential reading for all urban planners, water specialists, and the private sector to examine the interface between traditional water management practices, current mismanagement, and how climate change is set to make the whole problem much more accurate." --Nepali Times, "Colopy offers a whirlwind tour both beautiful and troubling.... [she] interacts as a Westerner in the South Asian world with grace, and shares what she has learned with thoughtful clarity." --Publisher's Weekly, "Colopy offers a whirlwind tour both beautiful and troubling.... [she] interacts as a Westerner in the South Asian world with grace, and shares what she has learned with thoughtful clarity." -- Publisher's Weekly "an important addition to the documentation of the ecological impact of population growth and development in South Asia." -- Library Journal, Renewable Natural Resources Foundation 2013 Excellence in Journalism Award"Colopy offers a whirlwind tour both beautiful and troubling.... [she] interacts as a Westerner in the South Asian world with grace, and shares what she has learned with thoughtful clarity." -- Publisher's Weekly"an important addition to the documentation of the ecological impact of population growth and development in South Asia." -- Library Journal"The book doesn't read like an academic treatise, instead with her descriptions of the landscapes and the colourful characters she meets along the way, it feels more like a travelogue told in the first person. It would be of interest to even those who are not very interested in rivers. ... Calopy's book should be essential reading for all urban planners, water specialists, and the private sector to examine the interface between traditional water management practices, current mismanagement, and how climate change is set to make the whole problem much more accurate." --Nepali Times, "Colopy offers a whirlwind tour both beautiful and troubling.... [she] interacts as a Westerner in the South Asian world with grace, and shares what she has learned with thoughtful clarity." --Publisher's Weekly "an important addition to the documentation of the ecological impact of population growth and development in South Asia." --Library Journal
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
333.91/620954
Table Of Content
Introduction Chapter 1: Dirty, Sacred Rivers Chapter 2: The Real Poop: How Rivers Become Sewers Chapter 3: Delhi's Yamuna Chapter 4: Melting Ice Rivers Chapter 5: The Shrinking Third Pole Chapter 6: In the Valley of Dhunge Dhara Chapter 7: Melamchi River Blues Chapter 8: More River Blues Chapter 9: Belji of Dhulikhel Chapter 10: The Sorrows of Bihar Chapter 11: The Koshi's Revenge Chapter 12: The Engineers Chapter 13: The Garland Chapter 14: Susu Chapter 15: Beyond Barrages and Boundaries Chapter 16: Poisoned Blessings Chapter 17: Where the Rivers End
Synopsis
Rivers have traditionally been revered by the people of the Indian subcontinent, though in recent decades, the region's rivers have deteriorated dramatically due to economic progress and gross mismanagement. Dams and ill-advised embankments strangle the Ganges and its sacred tributaries. Rivers have become sewage channels for a burgeoning population. Dirty, Sacred Rivers explores South Asia's looming water crisis, tracing a journey through the vast watershed of the Ganges, one of the great rivers of South Asia and to many people the holiest. To tell the story of this river basin, Cheryl Colopy treks to high mountain glaciers with hydrologists; bumps around the rough embankments of India's poorest state in a jeep with social workers; and takes a boat excursion through the Sundarbans, the mangrove forests at the end of the Ganges watershed. She lingers in key places and hot spots in the debate over water:· Delhi--a megacity on the banks of one the Ganges' most revered tributaries, the Yamuna-and a paradigm of water mismanagement · Bihar, where the Buddha gained enlightenment. It's now India's poorest, most crime-ridden state, thanks largely to the blunders of engineers who tried to tame powerful Himalayan rivers with embankments but instead created annual floods· Kathmandu--the home of one of the most elegant and ancient traditional water systems on the subcontinent, now the site of a water development boondoggle· The Nepal Himalaya, whose sweeping glaciers are starting to melt, threatening villagers in the high mountainsA first-person narrative holds together disparate places and issues. The reader meets a cast of characters, ranging from the most humble members of South Asian society to engineers and former ministers. Some of these men and women are heroes, bucking current trends, trying to find rational ways to manage rivers and water. They are reviving ingenious methods of water management that thrived for centuries in South Asia and may point the way to water sustainability and healthy rivers., One journalist's account of her 7-year journey through the Ganges river basin to explore the revered, yet highly polluted, rivers of South Asia., Dirty, Sacred Rivers explores South Asia's increasingly urgent water crisis, taking readers on a journey through North India, Nepal and Bangladesh, from the Himalaya to the Bay of Bengal. The book shows how rivers, traditionally revered by the people of the Indian subcontinent, have in recent decades deteriorated dramatically due to economic progress and gross mismanagement. Dams and ill-advised embankments strangle the Ganges and its sacred tributaries. Rivers have become sewage channels for a burgeoning population. To tell the story of this enormous river basin, environmental journalist Cheryl Colopy treks to high mountain glaciers with hydrologists; bumps around the rough embankments of India's poorest state in a jeep with social workers; and takes a boat excursion through the Sundarbans, the mangrove forests at the end of the Ganges watershed. She lingers in key places and hot spots in the debate over water: the megacity Delhi, a paradigm of water mismanagement; Bihar, India's poorest, most crime-ridden state, thanks largely to the blunders of engineers who tried to tame powerful Himalayan rivers with embankments but instead created annual floods; and Kathmandu, the home of one of the most elegant and ancient traditional water systems on the subcontinent, now the site of a water-development boondoggle. Colopy's vivid first-person narrative brings exotic places and complex issues to life, introducing the reader to a memorable cast of characters, ranging from the most humble members of South Asian society to engineers and former ministers. Here we find real-life heroes, bucking current trends, trying to find rational ways to manage rivers and water. They are reviving ingenious methods of water management that thrived for centuries in South Asia and may point the way to water sustainability and healthy rivers.
LC Classification Number
GB1340.G36C65 2012

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