Water Consciousness: How We All Have to Change to Protect Our Most Critical Resource — Overview

Water Consciousness is a book written and published by AlterNet Books and designed by Watershed Media. It is a solution-focused guide to the global water crisis hitting home everywhere. In-depth essays from leading thinkers and stunning photographs illuminate what we can do as individuals and as nations to reverse this crisis. Authors cover a breadth of topics including conservation, privatization, technology, grassroots movements, and the need for new laws that treat water as a common trust, not a commodity. Water Consciousness will not only inspire you to change how you think about water but also to change how you live with and use water every day.

The book’s sixteen chapters include:
Ch. 4 - The New Corporate Threat to Our Water
Ch. 6 - Agriculture’s Big Thirst: How to Change the Way We Grow Our Food
Ch. 7 - The Age of Consequences: A Short History of Dams
Ch. 10 - Can We Conserve Our Way Out of This?
Ch. 12 - Water Neutral: New Technology and Green Design

Why you should read Water Consciousness:

• The water crisis, linked to global warming, is the largest environmental challenge facing the U.S. and the world, and is increasingly becoming a huge news focus.
• This volume assembles the top environmental writers and thinkers including Bill McKibben, Maude Barlow, Vandana Shiva, Wenonah Hauter, and Tony Clarke.
• The book is designed to be both practical and beautiful. It presents readers with the best information in the most accessible format, including colorful images, charts, and other visuals, as well as a photo essay.
• The water crisis is a daunting problem but the book is solution-focused, and will motivate readers to become engaged.