{"product_id":"the-fluvial-imagination-by-colin-hoag-9780520386341","title":"The Fluvial Imagination","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLandlocked and surrounded by South Africa on all sides, the mountain kingdom of Lesotho became the world's first \u003cem\u003ewater-exporting country\u003c\/em\u003e when it signed a 1986 treaty with its powerful neighbour. An elaborate network of dams and tunnels now carries water to Johannesburg, the subcontinent's water-stressed economic epicentre. Hopes that receipts from water sales could improve Lesotho's fortunes, however, have clashed with fears that soil erosion from overgrazing livestock could fill its reservoirs with sediment. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn this wide-ranging and deeply researched book, Colin Hoag shows how producing water commodities incites a \u003cem\u003efluvial imagination\u003c\/em\u003e. Engineering water security for urban South Africa draws attention ever further into Lesotho's rural upstream catchments: from reservoirs to the soils and vegetation above them, and even to the social lives of herders at remote livestock posts. As we enter our planet's water-export era, Lesotho exposes the possibilities and perils ahead.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47464322203884,"sku":"9780520386341","price":66.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780520386341-the-fluvial-imagination.jpg?v=1775047391","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/the-fluvial-imagination-by-colin-hoag-9780520386341","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}