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Water Always Wins

Thriving in an Age of Drought and Deluge
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Water Always Wins takes readers on a global journey through time to explore water's true nature and its crucial role in adapting to climate change. Journalist Erica Gies investigates how frequent floods and droughts reveal our failing control over water, worsened by urbanisation and industrial agriculture. Following water 'detectives' employing science and historical research, the book uncovers how embracing water’s natural rhythms can foster resilience and protect both people and ecosystems.
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Water Always Wins will take readers through time and around the world to understand the water we take for granted, and to learn to work in harmony with it.

A journey through time and around the world to uncover water's true nature, and how it can help us adapt to climate change.

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A journey through time and around the world to uncover water's true nature, and how it can help us adapt to climate change.

Trouble with water – increasingly frequent, extreme floods and droughts – is one of the first obvious signs of climate change. Meanwhile, urban sprawl, industrial agriculture and engineered water infrastructure are making things worse. As our control attempts fail, we are forced to recognise an eternal truth: sooner or later, water always wins.

Award-winning science journalist Erica Gies follows water 'detectives' as they search for clues to water's past and present. Their tools: cutting-edge science and research into historical ecology, animal life, and earlier human practices. Their discoveries: a deeper understanding of what water wants and how accommodating nature can protect us and other species.

Modern civilisations tend to speed water away. We have forgotten that it must flex with the rhythms of the earth, and that only collaboration with nature will allow us to forge a more resilient future.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781800247369

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 12 May 2022

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Apollo

Illustration: 17 integrated b&w

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 153.0mm

Height: 234.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 336

About the Author

Erica Gies is an award-winning journalist and National Geographic Explorer based in Victoria, British Columbia and San Francisco. She writes about water, climate change, plants and critters for the New York Times, Atlantic, Guardian, Economist, Scientific American, New Scientist, Wired, and other publications.

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