Colorado River states bought time with a 3-year water conservation deal – now they need to think bigger – Robert Glennon

“If you want to scare yourself silly, read Water Follies …. You’ll learn how America is irrigating itself to death … while sucking its groundwater aquifers dry.” Margaret Atwood, in the Toronto Globe & Mail.

“The wells of the American dream stand a good chance of running dry; and to read Glennon’s necessary book is to know that without water there will be no wine, no roses, nothing over Dorothy’s rainbow except a pillar of salt.” Lewis H. Lapham, former editor of Harper’s Magazine and founder and editor of Lapham’s Quarterly.

“In Unquenchable, the examples of what uses the most water … were shocking.” Jon Stewart, on The Daily Show.

” … a lively account of hydrology ….” Bill McKibben, in the New York Review of Books.

“Robert Glennon has the heart of an environmentalist and the head of an economist. He also has a very good sense of humor – or maybe the absurd – which is on fine display in his survey of the nation’s use and abuse of its vast but imperiled water resources…. Unquenchable is a significant event in the literature of water management.” Tracy Mehan III, in The Environmental Forum.

“Robert Glennon connects the dots between our water woes and climate change, energy, growth, the environment, and agriculture. He makes a compelling case that we need to rethink how we use this prized resource and provides a number of thought-provoking solutions.” then-Senator Mark Udall, Colorado.

“[Water Follies] is a book as rich in detail as it is devastating in its argument.” Douglas Jehl, in Scientific American.

” … an array of informative stories that should contribute to shaking us out of what Glennon calls ‘the unlimited human capacity to ignore reality.'” The Washington Post.

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Human actions created the Salton Sea, California’s largest lake – here’s how to save it from collapse, protecting wild birds and human health – Robert Glennon and Brent M. Haddad

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Arizona thinks ocean desalination will bring it the water it needs. It won’t – Robert Glennon and Brent M. Haddad

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Salton Sea’s fate is dependent upon the Imperial Irrigation District – Robert Glennon and Brent M. Haddad

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