by Erik Ness | Aug 2, 2013 | Magazine Article
It’s shaping up to be a thirsty century. All over the world demand for fresh water is increasing, but supplies are declining in both quantity and quality. Ten major rivers from the Yellow in China to the Colorado in Mexico regularly fade away before they reach...
by Jane Elder | Aug 2, 2013 | Magazine Article
My favorite passage from Mark Twain’s Life on the Mississippi is the part in which Twain writes about learning from his river boat pilot how to “read the water.” “The face of the water, in time, became a wonderful book,” writes Twain, a book that was a dead language...
