Provides advice on creating a variety of backyard water gardens as well as information on cultivating aquatic plants.

Discusses the importance of humans' connection to water and how people are drawn to being in, on, or around oceans, rivers, and lakes and points to recent findings in neuroscience that indicate that proximity to water can improve mood, performance, health, and success.

This book-the first ethnography of water conservation on the Great Plains-provides an account of High Plains aquifer decline through an exploration of the different ways in which heartland residents inhabit and understand the imminent depletion of groundwater. This literary ethnography offers a vividly sketched look into the lives and stories of this community, based on interviews with members of the community such as fellow farmers and state regulators,...

Learn to find north using puddles, forecast the weather from waves, decode the colors of ponds, spot dangerous water in the dark, decipher wave patterns on beaches, and much more!

Iowa contains some of the world's most productive farmland. However, the immensity of this production has come at a cost: soil erosion, the loss of wildlife habitat, a lack of public recreation areas, foul air from animal waste, and especially degraded water. Chris Jones takes a long hard look at the science, politics, culture and economics of Iowa agriculture and the state's degraded waters and connects the dots for everyone who wonders why progress...

Set in the early 20th century, this feel-good underdog story of the first American swimmer to win Olympic gold follows Charles Daniels, who, to overcome his family’s disgrace and his mental health struggles, took to the water in an era when competitive sports were still in their infancy.

A gripping expose of the largest and most lethal drinking water contamination in US history and the scandalous 30 year denial and lack of response by military authorities