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55. Federal Elections Commission, aGeneral Councilas Report No. 2,a 18.[back]
56. USA v. Wickett.[back]
57. Federal Elections Commission, aGeneral Councilas Report No. 2,a 20a"21.[back]
58. Patrick Danner and Dan Christens, aFormer Exec Avoids Prison,a Miami Herald, May 10, 2008.[back]
59. Author telephone conversation with Jorge Martinez, June 25, 2010.[back]
60. Michael A. Fletcher, aObama Leaves D.C. to Sign Stimulus Bill,a Washington Post, February 18, 2009.[back]
61. The Denver Museum of Nature & Science opened Grand Canyon: River at Risk in its Phipps IMAX Theater on February 13, 2009.[back]
62. Ronnie Scheib, aReview: Grand Canyon Adventure: River at Risk,a Variety, March 17, 2008, 30.[back]
63. Lake Superior State University, aLake Superior State University 2010 Banished Words List,a http://www.lssu.edu/banished/.[back]
64. Barnett, aStimulus Made Easy.a[back]
65. aThe Florida Trend 350: Private Companies,a Florida Trend, June 2010.[back]
66. Barnett, aStimulus Made Easy.a Government collectively accounts for more than 90 percent of PBSJas income.[back]
Chapter 7 Singapore: Of Songbirds and Sewage.
1. Author interview with Linda Dorothy de Mello, deputy director of PUBas 3P Network Department, March 12, 2010.[back]
2. United Nations, The World at Six Billion, table 9, aPopulation Densities of the Countries of the World, 1999 and 2050,a 28. Singapore had 5,699 people per square kilometer in 1999.[back]
3. Salmah Zakaria and Zalilah Selamat, aWater Resources Management in Malaysia,a National Inst.i.tute for Land and Infrastructure Management, j.a.pan, http://www.nilim.go.jp/lab/bcg/siryou/tnn/tnn0156pdf/ks0156013.pdf.[back]
4. Peter H. Gleick, aWater Conflict Chronology,a Pacific Inst.i.tute for Studies in Development, Environment, and Security database, http://www.worldwater.org/conflict/list/.[back]
5. Tan Yong Soon, Clean, Green, and Blue: Singaporeas Journey Towards Environmental and Water Sustainability (Singapore: Inst.i.tute of Southeast Asian Studies Publishing, 2009), 70.[back]
6. Author interview with Tan Seng Chai, vice president for water projects in the Asia Pacific region for Black & Veatch, March 11, 2010.[back]
7. Lee Kuan Yew, From Third World to First: The Singapore Story: 1965 to 2000 (New York: HarperCollins, 2000); see chapter 13, aGreening Singapore,a especially pp. 173a"75.[back]
8. Ibid, 173a"74.[back]
9. Goh Chok Tong, speech for the official launch of NEWater, NEWater Visitor Centre, Singapore, February 21, 2003, http://app.mfa.gov.sg/data/2006/press/water/SpeechPM.html.[back]
10. Soon, Clean, Green, and Blue, 71a"72.[back]
11. Ibid., 72.[back]
12. Ibid., 73.[back]
13. Ibid., 73a"74.[back]
14. U.S. Department of Commerce, http://www.buyusa.gov/asianow/soilgas.html.[back]
15. a.s.sif Shameen, aSingapore, the New Switzerland,a Barronas, January 14, 2008, http://online.barrons.com/article/SB120009958593085271.html.[back]
16. U.S. Department of State, Background Note: Singapore, http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/2798.htm#econ.[back]
17. Unemployment rates from 2009 are from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, http://data.bls.gov/PDQ/servlet/SurveyOutputServlet?data_tool=latest_numbers&series_id=LNS14000000, and the government of Singapore, http://www.singstat.gov.sg/.[back]
18. World Bank, aGross National Income Per Capita 2008,a http://siteresources.worldbank.org/DATASTATISTICS/Resources/GNIPC.pdf.[back]
19. Travel and Leisure Southeast Asia, Ion Orchard, http://www.travelandleisureasia.com/destinations/singapore/singapore-shopping/359338/ion_orchard.html.[back]
20. Lee, From Third World to First, 180.[back]
21. aState of the Family in Singapore,a Singapore Ministry of Community Development, Youth, and Sports, General Household Survey from 2005; see fertility rate, 7.[back]
22. Mui Teng Yap, aSingaporeas aThree or Morea Policy: The First Five Years,a Asia-Pacific Population Journal 10, no. 4 (1005): 39a"52, http://www.un.org/Depts/escap/pop/journal/v10n4a3.htm.[back]
23. Lee, From Third World to First, 183a"84.[back]
24. Author interview with Harry Seah, director of the Technology and Water Quality Office at Singaporeas Public Utility Board (PUB), March 11, 2010.[back]
25. From Third World to First, 178.[back]
26. Ibid., 180.[back]
27. As just one example, see Cecilia Tortajada, aWater Management in Singapore,a International Journal of Water Resources Development 22, no. 2 (June 2006): 227a"40.[back]
28. Rural Community a.s.sistance Corporation, http://www.rcac.org/.[back]
29. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, aU.S. Census Data on Small Community Housing and Wastewater Disposal and Plumbing Practices,a http://www.epa.gov/owm/mab/smcomm/factsheets/census/index.htm.[back]
30. Author interview with Seah; and Teo Yin Yin at PUB, March 11, 2010.[back]
31. Ibid.[back]
32. Author interview with Teo, March 11, 2010.[back]
33. A LexisNexis search turned up 215 stories about NEWater between January 2001 and February 2003.[back]
34. Dominic Nathan, aNEWater, Itas Mind over Matter,a Straits Times, July 20, 2002.[back]
35. Natalie Soh, aCheers! to 37 years . . . and Newater,a Straits Times, August 10, 2002.[back]
36. Author interview with Seah.[back]
37. Tan, Clean, Green, and Blue, 74.[back]
38. The number of fish is from Tan Heok Hui and others, aFishes of the Marina Basin, Singapore, Before Erection of the Marina Barrage,a Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 58, no. 1 (February 28, 2010): 137a"44.[back]
39. Hui, aFishes of the Marina Basin, Singapore, Before Erection of the Marina Barrage,a 138.[back]
40. Author interview with Seah.[back]
41. Ibid.[back]
42. Author interview with Yong Wei Hin, a.s.sistant director, Changi Water Reclamation Plant, March 12, 2010.[back]
43. Ibid.[back]
44. Tan, Clean, Green, and Blue, 162.[back]
45. All per capita numbers were provided by the Public Utilities Board.[back]
46. The quote is from the Public Utilities Boardas aABC Watersa brochure.[back]
47. Author interview with de Mello.[back]
48. American Rivers, aRiver Facts,a http://www.americanrivers.org/library/river-facts/river-facts.html.[back]
49. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, aGreat Lakes, Basic Information,a http://www.epa.gov/glnpo/basicinfo.html.[back]
50. T. E. Reilly and others, aGround-Water Availability in the United States: U.S. Geological Survey Circular 1323,a 2008, 6, http://pubs.usgs.gov/circ/1323/.[back]
Chapter 8 The Big Dipper.
1. Felicity Barringer, aLas Vegasas Worried Water Czar,a New York Times online, Green blog, September 28, 2010.[back]
2. Emily Green, aThe Chosen One,a Las Vegas Sun, June 8, 2008.[back]
3. Michael E. Campana, aMulroy as Moses,a Aquadoc blog, http://aquadoc.typepad.com/waterwired/2009/08/mulroy-as-moses.html.[back]
4. Hal Rothman and Mike Davis, The Grit Beneath the Glitter: Tales from the Real Las Vegas (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002), 116.[back]
5. Green, aThe Chosen One.a[back]
6. Ibid.[back]
7. Ibid.[back]
8. Laura Parker, aLas Vegas Breaks Growth Bank, Census Says It Expanded by 40.9%,a USA Today, January 2, 1998.[back]
9. Author interview with Patricia Mulroy, chief of the Southern Nevada Water Authority, September 29, 2010.[back]
10. Green, aThe Chosen One.a[back]
11. Ibid.[back]
12. Rothman and Davis, The Grit Beneath the Glitter, 117.[back]
13. Mort Rosenblum, Escaping Platoas Cave: How Americaas Blindness to the Rest of the World Threatens Our Survival (New York: St. Martinas Press, 2007), 89.[back]
14. Joe Gelt, aDrop 2a"Enda"of-the-Line Reservoir Salvages Colorado River Water,a Arizona Water Resource Journal 16, no. 5 (Maya"June 2008).[back]
15. John Lippert and Jim Efstathiou Jr., aLas Vegas Running Out of Water Means Dimming Los Angeles Lights,a Bloomberg News, February 26, 2009.[back]
16. Author interview with Mulroy.[back]
17. Brett Walton, aThe Price of Water: A Comparison of Water Rates, Usage in 30 U.S. Cities,a Circle of Blue, April 26, 2010, http://www.circleofblue.org/waternews/2010/world/the-price-of-water-a-comparison-of-water-rates-usage-in-30-u-s-cities/. Prices cited are for a family that uses an average of one hundred gallons daily per capita.[back]
18. Solomon, Water, 350; see chapter 4, note 22.[back]
19. Rosenblum, Escaping Platoas Cave, 89.[back]
20. Matt Jenkins, aVegas Forges Ahead on Pipeline Plan,a High Country News, October 12, 2009.[back]
21. a.s.sociated Press, aVegas Water Pipeline Foes Seek Nevada Court Hearing,a Salt Lake Tribune, August 21, 2010.[back]
22. Jenkins, aVegas Forges Ahead on Pipeline Plan.a[back]
23. Henry Brean, aMulroy Advice for Obama: Tap Mississippi Floodwaters,a Las Vegas Review-Journal, January 12, 2009.[back]
24. Robert Glennon, Unquenchable: Americaas Water Crisis and What to Do About It (Washington, DC: Island Press, 2009), 15.[back]
25. Solomon, Water, 348.[back]
26. Peter Annin, The Great Lakes Water Wars (Washington, DC: Island Press, 2006), 68.[back]
27. Ibid., and personal communication with Jonathan Bulkley.[back]
28. Brean, aMulroy Advice for Obama.a[back]
29. Peter G. Brown, aAre There Any Natural Resources?a in Water Ethics: Foundational Readings for Students and Professionals, eds. Peter G. Brown and Jeremy J. Schmidt (Washington, DC: Island Press, 2010), 203a"18.[back]
30. The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, aMajor Religious Traditions in the U.S.,a http://religions.pewforum.org/reports. According to the 2007 report, 78.4 percent of Americans identified with a Christian faith and 16 percent said they had no religious affiliation.[back]
