Below are some of the readings that you might expect to read for this course. The list, of course, will expand in the future (consequently, some titles will be abandoned). This list is not intended to be exhaustive, rather it is to provide a look at the sort of titles you will be reading should you choose to enroll in this course.
Our primary text will chosen from one of the two following titles:
Applied Principles of Hydrology 3rd Edition by John C Manning
Principles of Water Resources 3rd Edition History, Development, Management, and Policy by Thomas V Cech
The main text will be supplemented by extensive reading from the following titles...
...one of the following books addressing the North American water crisis...
Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water, Revised Edition by Marc Reisner
Unquenchable: America's Water Crisis and What to Do about It by Robert Glennon
Not a Drop to Drink: America's Water Crisis (and What You Can Do) by Ken Midkiff
Water Follies: Groundwater Pumping And The Fate Of America's Fresh Waters by Robert Glennon
...one of the following books addressing the global water crisis...
Blue Covenant: The Global Water Crisis and the Coming Battle for the Right to Water
by Maude Barlow
Water Wars: Privatization, Pollution, and Profit by Vandana Shiva
Tapped Out: The Coming World Crisis in Water and What We Can Do About It by Paul Simon
...other possible titles...
Bottlemania: How Water Went on Sale and Why We Bought It by Elizabeth Royte
Atchafalay excerpt from The Control of Nature by John Mcphee
Silenced Rivers by Patrick Mccully
Letting Swift River Go by Jane Yolen (yes, this is a children's book)
IPCC Fourth Assessment Report (AR4) Climate Change 2007: Synthesis Report
IPCC Fourth Assessment Report: Climate Change 2007 (AR4) Working Group II Report "Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability" Chapter 3: Fresh Water Resources and their Management
Water 2025 (DOI Report)
World Water in 2025: Global modeling and scenario analysis for the World Commision on Water for the 21th Century (.pdf) by Joseph Alcamo, Thomas Henrichs, and Thomas Rosch
SABMiller and WWF-UK (2009) Water footprinting: Identifying & addressing water risks in the value chain, SABMiller, Woking, UK / WWF-UK, Goldalming, UK
Kenny, J.F., Barber, N.L., Hutson, S.S., Linsey, K.S., Lovelace, J.K., and Maupin, M.A., 2009, Estimated use of water in the United States in 2005: U.S. Geological Survey Circular 1344, 52 p.
DeSimone, L.A., Hamilton, P.A., Gilliom, R.J., 2009, Quality of water from domestic wells in principal aquifers of the United States, 1991–2004—Overview of major findings: U.S. Geological Survey Circular 1332, 48 p.
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
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