{"product_id":"b009iu5dk0","title":"Water: A Natural History","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn environmental engineer turned ecology writer relates the history of our waterways and her own growing understanding of what needs to be done to save this essential natural resource.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWater: A Natural History  takes us back to the diaries of the first Western explorers; it moves from the reservoir to the modern toilet, from the grasslands of the Midwest to the Everglades of Florida, through the guts of a wastewater treatment plant and out to the waterways again. It shows how human-engineered dams, canals and farms replaced nature's beaver dams, prairie dog tunnels, and buffalo wallows. Step by step, Outwater makes clear what should have always been obvious: while engineering can de-pollute water, only ecologically interacting systems can create healthy waterways.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eImportant reading for students of environmental studies, the heart of this history is a vision of our land and waterways as they once were, and a plan that can restore them to their former glory: a land of living streams, public lands with hundreds of millions of beaver-built wetlands, prairie dog towns that increase the amount of rainfall that percolates to the groundwater, and forests that feed their fallen trees to the sea.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ANT","offers":[{"title":"Ebook","offer_id":52819480608984,"sku":"YSL33969","price":7.19,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0835\/3356\/2072\/files\/71GuMgDkefL._SY1500.jpg?v=1793090058","url":"https:\/\/www.bookmebay.com\/products\/b009iu5dk0","provider":"BookMebay","version":"1.0","type":"link"}