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SUMMARY:Nature and Environment Book Club: Where the Water Goes
DESCRIPTION:Please contact facilitator Hilary Caws-Elwitt for updated 
 meeting info.\n\nThe Nature and Environment Book Club is devoted to the 
 best of nature writing and environmental reporting with discussions on the 
 second Wednesday of each month. Readers and writers interested in books 
 ranging from such classics as Annie Dillard’s Pilgrim at Tinker Creek to 
 topical reportage like Elizabeth Kolbert’s The Sixth Extinction will want 
 to join the conversation.\n\n\nThis month's book is Where the Water Goes by 
 David Owen. \n\nGet a copy from the library by placing a hold.\n\nAbout the 
 book:\n\nThe Colorado River is a crucial resource for a surprisingly large 
 part of the United States\, and every gallon that flows down it is owned or 
 claimed by someone. David Owen traces all that water from the Colorado's 
 headwaters to its parched terminus\, once a verdant wetland but now a 
 million-acre desert. He takes readers on an adventure downriver\, along a 
 labyrinth of waterways\, reservoirs\, power plants\, farms\, fracking 
 sites\, ghost towns\, and RV parks\, to the spot near the U.S.-Mexico 
 border where the river runs dry. Water problems in the western United 
 States can seem tantalizingly easy to solve: just turn off the fountains at 
 the Bellagio\, stop selling hay to China\, ban golf\, cut down the almond 
 trees\, and kill all the lawyers. But a closer look reveals a vast man-made 
 ecosystem that is far more complex and more interesting than the headlines 
 let on.\n\n
LOCATION:Watson Room
ORGANIZER;CN="Forbes Library":MAILTO:info@forbeslibrary.org
CATEGORIES:Adult Events, Book Discussions, Recurring Events
CONTACT;CN="Forbes Library":MAILTO:info@forbeslibrary.org
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URL:https://forbeslibrary.libcal.com/event/11408485
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