03225nam a2200493 i 4500 ebr10831349 CaPaEBR m o d cr cn||||||||| 100414t20102010bccab ob 001 0 eng|d 9780774817028 (pbk. : alk. paper) 077481702X (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780774817011 (bound) 0774817011 (bound) 9780774817035 (e-book) CaPaEBR eng rda pn CaPaEBR (OCoLC)872675031 GB665 .L56 2010eb 553.7 22 Linton, Jamie. What is water? : the history of a modern abstraction / Jamie Linton ; foreword by Graeme Wynn. Vancouver : UBC Press, [2010] �2010 1 online resource (352 pages) : illustrations, maps. text rdacontent computer rdamedia online resource rdacarrier Nature, history, society, 1713-6680 Includes bibliographical references and index. Fixing the flow : the things we make of water -- Relational dialectics : putting things in fluid terms -- Intimations of modern water -- From premodern waters to modern water -- The hydrologic cycle(s) : scientific and sacred -- The Hortonian hydrologic cycle -- Reading the resource : modern water, the hydrologic cycle, and the state -- Culmination : global water -- The constitution of modern water -- Modern water in crisis -- Sustaining modern water : the new "global water regime" -- Hydrolectics. "We all know what water is, and we often take it for granted. But the spectre of a worldwide water crisis suggests there might be something fundamentally wrong with the way we think about water. Jamie Linton dives into the history of water as an abstract concept, stripped of its environmental, social, and cultural contexts. Reduced to a scientific abstraction--to mere H[subscript 2]O--this concept has given modern society licence to dam, divert, and manipulate water with apparent impunity. Part of the solution to the water crisis involves reinvesting water with social content, thus altering the way we see water. What Is Water? offers a fresh approach to a fundamental problem."--BOOK JACKET. Description based on print version record. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2014. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. Whitman College Memorial bookplates Class of 1940. Water. Hydrologic cycle. Water History. Water Environmental aspects. Water Social aspects. Electronic books. Print version: Linton, Jamie. What is water? : the history of a modern abstraction. Vancouver : UBC Press, [2010] xviii, 333 pages ; 24 cm. Nature/history/society, 1713-6680 9780774817011 (OCoLC)ocn458726831 (DLC)10831349 ebrary. http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10831349 An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 90469 90469