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100 1 $aLeslie, Jacques,$d1947-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n95038345
245 10 $aDeep water :$bthe epic struggle over dams, displaced people, and the environment /$cJacques Leslie.
246 1 $iPre-publication title:$aDams, development, disaster
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bFarrar, Straus and Giroux,$c2005.
300 $a352 pages :$bmaps ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
505 00 $gPt. I.$tIndia : to struggle is to live -- $gPt. II.$tSouthern Africa : one good dam -- $gPt. III.$tAustralia : a healthy, working river.
520 1 $a"In Deep Water, Jacques Leslie dramatizes the effects of dams to tell the story of globalization and the world we live in. In the great tradition of long-form reportage, he went afield with three experts on dams: Medha Patkar, a charismatic Indian activist who has fought against the completion of a giant dam in India by chaining herself to it each year as the water rises, threatening to let herself be drowned unless construction is ceased; a Berkeley professor named Thayer Scudder, who has spent his career studying the effects of dams in Africa on the tribal people they've displaced; and Don Blackmore, a man whose unenviable job is to persuade Australian farmers to release water they've diverted from the Murray River for personal use, in order to prevent a major drought in an area Australians fancy as the next California." "In each of these portraits, Leslie brings into sharp focus the political, social, economic, and environmental issues to which dams give rise."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aDams.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85035582
650 0 $aDams$xEnvironmental aspects.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85035586
650 0 $aDams$xSocial aspects.
852 00 $bleh$hTC540$i.L495 2005