Replenish : Island Press : 9781642830101 : 1642830100 : 10 Mar 2020 : "Nothing is more important to life than water, and no one knows water better than Sandra Postel. Replenish is a wise, sobering, but ultimately hopeful book." ?Elizabeth Kolbert "Remarkable." ?New York Times Book Review "Clear-eyed treatise...Postel makes her case eloquently." ?Booklist, starred review "An informative, purposeful argument." ?Kirkus We have disrupted the natural water cycle for centuries in an effort to control water for our own prosperity. Yet every year, recovery from droughts and floods costs billions of dollars, and we spend billions more on dams, diversions, levees, and other feats of engineering. These massive projects not only are risky financially and environmentally, they often threaten social and political stability. What if the answer was not further control of the water cycle, but repair and replenishment? Sandra Postel takes readers around the world to explore water projects that work