Peter P. Rogers
Autor(a) de Running Out of Water: The Looming Crisis and Solutions to Conserve Our Most Precious Resource
About the Author
Obras de Peter P. Rogers
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Conhecimento Comum
- Nome de batismo
- Rogers, Peter Phillips
- Data de nascimento
- 1937-04-30
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- Liverpool, England, UK
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 6
- Membros
- 38
- Popularidade
- #383,442
- Avaliação
- 2.7
- Resenhas
- 2
- ISBNs
- 10
- Idiomas
- 1
I saw three gaping holes in the presentation.
1. The chapter on agricultural water use focuses on increasingly high tech solutions to continue growing corn and soybean monocultures in parts of the country that are plainly not suited for them. There was not even a whisper of the possibility of switching to more adaptive crops and soil management practices that would allow sustainable agriculture.
2. The chapter on the bottled water industry wants to condemn the practice, but waffles heavily, even quoting Nestlé's chairman admiringly for his perception on the value of water.
3. The task of cleaning water for consumption is the whole thrust of the book. But industrial contaminants are hardly mentioned. There is lots of material on sewage reclamation and San Francisco's restaurant grease to biodiesel program, but the plastics, wood and oil industries, to mention just a few major polluters, are not addressed at all.
Oh, and alternatives to flush toilets should have been a topic as well.
There is a meaningful discussion on the economic value of water.… (mais)