Overview
Introduction
Leading Water to the Horse
by Jesse Emspak
Section 1: Feats of Engineering
1.1 Grand Coulee Progresses
by R. G. Skerrett
1.2 Finishing the All-American Canal
by R.G. Skerrett
1.3 Building the Hoover Dam (Part 1)
by Walker R. Young
1.4 Building the Hoover Dam (Part 2)
by Walker R. Young
1.5 The Power of Gravity: The Hoover Dam in 2002
by W. Wayt Gibbs
Section 2: Grand Plans
2.1 Ground Water
by A. N. Sayre
2.2 Exploiting Water to the Fullest
by Roger Revelle
2.3 The Mekong River Plan
by Gilbert F. White
2.4 The Control of the Water Cycle
by Jose P. Peixoto and M. Ali Kettani
2.5 The Salinity of Rivers
by Arthur F. Pillsbury
Section 3: Changing Course
3.1 Water
by Robert P. Ambroggi
3.2 Saving the Ogallala Aquifier
by Jane Braxton Little
3.3 Experimental Flooding in the Grand Canyon
by Michael P. Cillier, Robert H. Webb and Edmund D. Andrews
3.4 Down Go the Dams
by Jane C. Marks
3.5 After the Deluge
by John A. Carey
3.6 Facing the Freshwater Crisis
by Peter Rogers
3.7 The Himba and the Dam
by Carol Ezzell
Section 4: New Ways of Doing
4.1 In a Dry Land
by Rodger Doyle
4.2 Parched Policy: Rain Won’t Help Shortages in California
by Tim Beardsley
4.3 Making Every Drop Count
by Peter H. Gleick
4.4 Clean Energy from Filthy Water
by Jane Braxton Little
4.5 Restoring the Rio Grande
by Krista West
4.6 Reclaiming the Aral Sea
by Philip Micklin and Nikolay V. Aladin
Section 5: Facing the Future
5.1 The Coming Mega Drought
by Peter H. Gleick and Matthew Heberger
5.2 A River Rams through It: Argentina’s Rio Nuevo
by Melaine Lenart
5.3 A Shifting Band of Rain
by Julian P. Sachs and Conor L. Myhrvold