Blue Revolution: A Water Ethic for America

Last Wednesday I had the privilege to go to UNC-Charlotte with the Eco-Reps to listen to Cynthia Barnett talk about the water crisis in America. She was speaking a day after her newest book, Blue Revolution: A Water Ethic for America, was released for sale. Barnett has written another book on water crises, entitled Mirage: Florida and the Vanishing Water of the Eastern U.S. Her newest, however, takes a broader look at water crises, by including all of the United States and through references to practices used in other countries, like India and Australia.

There are 3.5 million miles of river in the United States, and 600,000 trillion gallons of water beneath our feet. This seems like a lot, but Barnett argues that it isn't.