Book review: 'Elixir: A History of Water and Humankind'
Thursday, August 18, 2011 - 00:30
in Earth & Climate
Author Brian Fagan venerates societies that treat the crucial liquid with respect.It's a typically Western irony that a well-researched and thoughtful book about water and its scarcity would be published during a spring that left every river from the Mississippi to the Colorado brimming, and water managers facing the unusual task of optimizing nature's largess.