{"product_id":"water-9780786725816","title":"Water","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn environmental engineer turned ecology writer relates the history of our waterways and her own growing understanding of what needs to be done to save this essential natural resource.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWater: A Natural History\u003c\/i\u003e takes us back to the diaries of the first Western explorers; it moves from the reservoir to the modern toilet, from the grasslands of the Midwest to the Everglades of Florida, through the guts of a wastewater treatment plant and out to the waterways again. It shows how human-engineered dams, canals and farms replaced nature's beaver dams, prairie dog tunnels, and buffalo wallows. Step by step, Outwater makes clear what should have always been obvious: while engineering can de-pollute water, only ecologically interacting systems can create healthy waterways.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Important reading for students of environmental studies, the heart of this history is a vision of our land and waterways as they once were, and a plan that can restore them to their former glory: a land of living streams, public lands with hundreds of millions of beaver-built wetlands, prairie dog towns that increase the amount of rainfall that percolates to the groundwater, and forests that feed their fallen trees to the sea.","brand":"Basic Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67927653482674,"sku":"9780786725816","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0536\/7418\/0786\/files\/9780786725816.jpg?v=1794114247","url":"https:\/\/shop.hachettebookgroup.com\/products\/water-9780786725816","provider":"Hachette Book Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}