| #2080911 in Books | Oxford University Press, USA | 2012-10-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 6.40 x1.10 x9.30l,1.60 | File type: PDF | 416 pages | ||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| a true and vital experience of our shared humanity|By a pot of tea and a good book|I have long believed that the world could be a vastly better place if a part of every human life, there was a journey to a remote part of the world to that person, to live with people from a very different culture, and from this experience gain a true perspective of the human experience. This boo|||Renewable Natural Resources Foundation 2013 Excellence in Journalism Award||"Colopy offers a whirlwind tour both beautiful and troubling.... [she] interacts as a Westerner in the South Asian world with grace, and shares what she has learned with thoughtful cl
Dirty, Sacred Rivers explores South Asia's increasingly urgent water crisis, taking readers on a journey through North India, Nepal and Bangladesh, from the Himalaya to the Bay of Bengal. The book shows how rivers, traditionally revered by the people of the Indian subcontinent, have in recent decades deteriorated dramatically due to economic progress and gross mismanagement. Dams and ill-advised embankments strangle the Ganges and its sacred tributaries. Rivers ...
You easily download any file type for your device.Dirty, Sacred Rivers: Confronting South Asia's Water Crisis | Cheryl Colopy. I really enjoyed this book and have already told so many people about it!
