TY  - BOOK
AB  - "We all know what water is, and we often take it for granted. But the spectre of a worldwide water crisis suggests there might be something fundamentally wrong with the way we think about water. Jamie Linton dives into the history of water as an abstract concept, stripped of its environmental, social, and cultural con texts. Reduced to a scientific abstraction - to mere H[subscript 2]O - this concept has given modern society licence to dam, divert, and manipulate water with apparent impunity. Part of the solution to the water crisis involves reinvesting water with social content, thus altering the way we see water. What Is Water? offers a fresh approach to a fundamental problem."--BOOK JACKET.
AU  - Linton, Jamie.
CN  - GB665
CN  - GB665
CY  - Vancouver :
DA  - c2010.
ID  - 342763
KW  - Water.
KW  - Hydrologic cycle.
KW  - Water
KW  - Water
KW  - Water
N2  - "We all know what water is, and we often take it for granted. But the spectre of a worldwide water crisis suggests there might be something fundamentally wrong with the way we think about water. Jamie Linton dives into the history of water as an abstract concept, stripped of its environmental, social, and cultural con texts. Reduced to a scientific abstraction - to mere H[subscript 2]O - this concept has given modern society licence to dam, divert, and manipulate water with apparent impunity. Part of the solution to the water crisis involves reinvesting water with social content, thus altering the way we see water. What Is Water? offers a fresh approach to a fundamental problem."--BOOK JACKET.
PB  - UBC Press,
PP  - Vancouver :
PY  - c2010.
SN  - 9780774817028 (pbk.)
SN  - 9780774817011
SN  - 0774817011
T1  - What is water? :the history of a modern abstraction /
TI  - What is water? :the history of a modern abstraction /
ER  -