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Cover of Autumn 2008

Autumn 2008

The Water Issue
volume 23 no. 3

Journal

Features

 
photo of a water mirage in a desert landscape, with a locked pump in the foreground
Mirage
Climate Change Threatens to Dry Up the Southwest’s Future
by Jason Mark
 
photo of a pill bottle, H2O written on it
Pink Water
Plastics, Pesticides, and Pills Are Contaminating Our Drinking Supply
by Holly Pyhtila
 
photo of an industrial scene, dust
Manufacturing Thirst
The Hidden Water Costs of Our Industrial Economy
by Kari Lydersen
From the Editor: Running Dry
Letters to the Editor: Feedback
Around the World: Local News from All Over
Temperature Gauge: Notes from a warming world
Spyhopping: South Africa’s Water Woes Echo Global Problems
by Gar Smith
Earth Island News: Earth Island Project Reports
Earth Island News: Baikal Watch
Siberia Is Not a (Nuclear) Wasteland
by Gary Cook
Earth Island News: China Rivers Project
Taking Brower’s Vision to the Grand Canyons of the East
by Kristen Mcdonald
Earth Island News: Brower Youth Awards
Meet Our 2008 Winners
by Sharon Smith
Reports: All Aflutter
The Flap Over the Mail Order Butterfly Industry
by Adam Federman
1,000 Words: You Don’t Miss Your Water Until Your Well Runs Dry
Reports: Return to Cochabamba
Eight Years Later, the Bolivian Water War Continues
by Jean Friedman-Rudovsky
Conversation: Tara Lohan
by Nell Greenberg
Reports: Trouble in Paradise
The Struggle to Save Belize’s Glover’s Atoll
by Jeremy Kryt and Jamie Ward
In Review: Renewal
by Marty Ostrow and Terry Kay Rockefeller, directors; Fine Cut Productions
In Review: Cadillac Desert
by Mark Reisner. 608 pages, Penguin, Revised 1993
Voices: Liquid Confetti
by Alexandra Cheney