Those who work in water for a living can easily (and appropriately) obsess over daily demands. How is the process doing? What equipment needs replacing? How will we deal with the next rain event? Are we certain of meeting permit next month?
But now and then it’s useful to step back and see water in the big picture: How it’s used, moved, managed, consumed and abused around the country and the world. Judith D. Schwartz’s book, Water in Plain Sight: Hope for a Thirsty World, provides that kind of broad perspective.It’s not the newest book about water (2019, Chelsea Green Publishing),
