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31. Gary Chamberlain, Troubled Waters: Religion, Ethics, and the Global Water Crisis (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2008), 40.[back]

32. Naser I. Faruqui and others, eds., Water Management in Islam (j.a.pan: United Nations University Press, 2001), 1.[back]

33. Ibid.; and Howard Schwartz, Tree of Souls: The Mythology of Judaism (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004), 94.[back]

34. Rajendra Pradhan and Ruth Meinzen-d.i.c.k, aWhich Rights Are Right? Water Rights, Culture, and Underlying Values,a in Water Ethics, eds. Brown and Schmidt, 48.[back]

35. Sidney Lanier, aSong of the Chattahoochee,a in Yale Book of American Verse, ed. Thomas R. Lounsbury (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1912), 480.[back]

36. Cynthia Barnett, aShortage in the Land of Plenty,a in Water Matters, ed. Tara Lohan (San Francisco: Alternet Books, 2010), 26.[back]

37. According to the Florida Department of Environmental Protection, Florida paid $15.5 million in legal fees on the tristate water conflict between November 2001 and May 2010, with $11.7 million of that to lawyers at Hogan Lovells offices in Miami and Washington, DC. According to the Georgia Attorney Generalas Office, Georgia had spent $7.7 million through May 2010, $6.9 million of that to McKenna Long & Aldridge. The Atlanta Regional Commission reports that it paid another $7 million in legal fees, most to King & Spalding. The $30 million total does not include other cities or Alabama, whose governoras and attorney generalas offices did not respond to public-records requests.[back]

38. ABC News, video, aGeorgians Pray for Raina"Literally,a November 13, 2007.[back]

39. Ibid. Perdue is quoting Psalm 65 of the New King James version of the Bible, lines 9a"10.[back]

40. U.S. district judge Paul A. Magnuson, Memorandum and Order in re Tri-State Water Rights Litigation, Case No. 3:07-md-01, U.S. District Court, Middle District of Florida, 94.[back]

41. aGovernor Perdue Reflects on Years in Office,a Channel 2 Action News, Atlanta, December 28, 2010.[back]

42. aPet.i.tion for Reconsideration of Endangerment and Cause or Contribute Findings for Greenhouse Gases Under Section 202 (a) of the Clean Air Act,a EPA Docket No. EPA-HQ-OAR-2009a"0171, December 23, 2009.[back]

43. Harris Blackwood, aAre More Dams on the Flint the Answer?a Gainesville Times, May 4, 2008.[back]

44. Georgia Water Coalition, aWater for All Georgiaa (commercial, available on You Tube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uezMV9ri-LY/).[back]

45. Shaila Dewan, aGeorgia Claims a Sliver of the Tennessee River,a New York Times, February 22, 2008.[back]

46. Earth Covenant Ministry, aRiver of Life Project,a http://www.earthcovenantministry.org/RiverOfLife/index.htm.[back]

47. Author interview with Joe Cook, Riverkeeper of the Upper Coosa River, December 23, 2010.[back]

48. Cynthia Barnett, Mirage: Florida and the Vanishing Water of the Eastern U.S. (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2007), 123.[back]

49. Ibid., 105.[back]

50. Bobby MacGill, aAaron Million Tweaks His Water Project,a Coloradoan, December 24, 2010.[back]

51. Pearce, When the Rivers Run Dry, 227.[back]

52. aNAWAPA: Water for Lifea; see this video and a series of videoconferences at http://www.larouchepac.com/node/15570/.[back]

53. Annin, The Great Lakes Water Wars, 193.[back]

54. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, aThe Great Lakes: An Environmental Atlas and Resource Book,a http://www.epa.gov/glnpo/atlas/index.html.[back]

55. Annin, The Great Lakes Water Wars, 23.[back]

56. Ibid., 23a"28.[back]

57. Author interview with Mulroy.[back]

58. Solomon, Water, 350a"51.[back]

59. Barnett and Pierce, aWhen Will Lake Mead Go Dry?,a 19.[back]

60. Author interview with Mulroy.[back]

Chapter 9 The Business of Blue.

1. Rich Rovito, aThe Pied Piper of Milwaukee: Meeusen Speaks Up to Get the Job Done,a Milwaukee Business Journal, May 22, 2009.[back]

2. aThe Greener Side of Blue,a Badger Meter Inc. Annual Report 2008, 2.[back]

3. Author interview with Richard Meeusen, chairman, president, and CEO of Badger Meter Inc., November 30, 2010.[back]

4. Joe Barrett, aWater Plan Aims to Help Jobs Flow,a Wall Street Journal, November 30, 2009.[back]

5. John G. Craig Jr. aOut of the Ashes,a Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, May 16, 2009.[back]

6. Elizabeth Cutright, aGreen Fever Blues,a Water Efficiency, March 2008.[back]

7. Tristan Roberts, aYour Guide to the New Draft of LEED,a Environmental Building News, November 8, 2010.[back]

8. CapitalEND, aThe Water Opportunity for Ontario,a March 2010.[back]

9. aWater Use in Buildings: Achieving Business Performance Benefits through Efficiency,a McGraw-Hill Construction, June 2009.[back]

10. IBM. aSmarter Water for a Smarter Planet,a IBM Conversations for a Smarter Planet Series #14.[back]

11. Schnoor, aWater Sustainability in a Changing World.a[back]

12. The Alliance for Water Efficiency, aWater Sense and Green Jobsa (white paper, 2010), http://www.allianceforwaterefficiency.org/.[back]

13. Karen Herzog, aPerch Return to Local Watersa"in an Old Factory,a Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, February 5, 2010.[back]

14. Brett Walton, aThe Price of Watera (see chapter 8, note 17).[back]

15. Data courtesy of Milwaukee Water Works.[back]

16. Author interview with economist David Zetland, May 20, 2010.[back]

17. Office of Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, aGov. Schwarzenegger Announces Appointments to Water Commission, Sacramentoa"San Joaquin Delta Conservancy,a May 14, 2010.[back]

18. Economist, aFor Want of a Drink,a May 22, 2010, 5.[back]

19. International Development Research Center, aWater and Islam,a http://www.idrc.ca/en/ev-66732-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html.[back]

20. Maude Barlow, aOur Water Commons: Toward a New Freshwater Narrative,a http://www.canadians.org/water/publications/water%20commons/water%20 commons%20-%20web.pdf, 2.[back]

21. Data from the United Nations and the Council of Canadians.[back]

22. Peter H. Gleick, Bottled & Sold: The Story Behind Our Obsession with Bottled Water (Washington, DC: Island Press, 2010), 4a"5.[back]

23. Joan F. Kenny and others, aEstimated Use of Water in the United States in 2005: U.S. Geological Survey Circular 1344,a 2009, http://pubs.usgs.gov/circ/1344/.[back]

24. Author interview with Zetland.[back]

25. U.S. Government Accountability Office, aBureau of Reclamation Information on Allocation and Repayment of Costs of Constructing Water Projectsa (report, July 2006).[back]

26. Author interview with Zetland.[back]

27. Douglas Jehl, aAs Cities Move to Privatize Water, Atlanta Steps Back,a New York Times, February 10, 2003.[back]

28. Cynthia Barnett, Mirage: Florida and the Vanishing Water of the Eastern U.S. (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2007), 166.[back]

29. Zetland has been working on a book called The End of Abundance: A Guide to the New Economics of Water Scarcity.[back]

30. Andy Newman, aCity Proposes Water Rate Increase of Nearly 13%,a New York Times, April 9, 2010.[back]

31. Author interview with Zetland.[back]

32. Tan Yong Soon, Clean, Green, and Blue, 165a"67.[back]

33. Australian Government, aThe Cost-Effectiveness of Rainwater Tanks in Urban Australia,a March 2007, table 2, ES viii. http://www.nwc.gov.au/www/html/605-waterlines-1.asp?intSiteID=1.[back]

34. U.S. Census Bureau data for the period between July 2007 and July 2008.[back]

35. Author interview with Dean Amhaus, director of the Milwaukee Water Council, September 15, 2010.[back]

36. Anne Davies, aSydneyas Future Eaten: The Flannery Prophecy,a Sydney Morning Herald, May 19, 2004.[back]

Chapter 10 Australia: Dry Down Under.

1. Antipodes maps allow users to see the other side of the world; see, for example, http://www.antipodemap.com/.[back]

2. Australian Bureau of Statistics, National Regional Profile, Perth, http://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats//9fdb8b444ff1e8e2ca25709c0081a8f9/648af544ef27bc13ca25771300181857!OpenDoc.u.ment/.[back]

3. Marnie Leybourne and Andrea Gaynor, Water: Histories, Cultures, Ecologies (Perth: University of Western Australia Publishing, 2006), 122a"30.[back]

4. M. Donaldson, aThe End of Time? Aboriginal Temporality and the British Invasion of Australiaa (Faculty of Arts Papers, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, Australia, 1996), 5.[back]

5. Pamela Statham-Drew, James Stirling: Admiral and Founding Governor of Western Australia (Crawley: University of Western Australia, 2003), 77.[back]

6. Ibid., 124a"25.[back]

7. Ibid., 79.[back]

8. Government House, http://www.govhouse.wa.gov.au/garden.htm.[back]

9. E. A. Pearce and C. G. Smith, The World Weather Guide (London: Hutchinson, 1984), 304.[back]

10. The Australian Bureau of Statistics reports that Western Australiaas population doubled between 1970 and 2001. The Government of Western Australia Department of State reports average GDP growth at 5.21 percent during the first ten years of the new century, outperforming nationwide GDP growth of 4.34 percent. http://www.dsd.wa.gov.au/7159.aspx.[back]

11. Water Corporation of Western Australia. Perthas 2001 per capita use was 185 kiloliters per year, according to the utility. Thatas 506 liters per person per day, or about 135 U.S. liquid gallons per person each day.[back]

12. See note 10.[back]

13. Craig James, aAustralian Homes Are Biggest in the Worlda (November 2009). Western Australian home sizes averaged 243.9 square meters in the 2008a"2009 fiscal year, compared to 201.5 square meters in the United States. http://images.comsec.com.au/ipo/UploadedImages/craigjames3f6189175551497fada1a4769f74d09c.pdf.[back]

14. Michael McKernan, Drought: The Red Marauder (Crows Nest, New South Wales: Allen & Unwin, 2005), 23.[back]

15. Australian Government Bureau of Meteorology, aThe aFederation Drought,a 1895 to 1902,a http://www.bom.gov.au/lam/climate/levelthree/c20thc/drought1.htm.[back]

16. McKernan, Drought, 15.[back]

17. Michael Cathcart, The Water Dreamers: The Remarkable History of Our Dry Continent (Melbourne, Victoria: Text Publishing, 2009), 2.[back]

18. Frank Welsh, Australia: A New History of the Great Southern Land (Woodstock, NY: Overlook Press, 2004), 250 (for first irrigation schemes and U.S. model); 392a"93 (for some results).[back]

19. Ibid., 392a"93.[back]

20. Cathcart, The Water Dreamers, 206a"7.[back]

21. William J. Coughlin, aInto the Outback: How a Young Herbert Hoover Made His Namea"and His Fortunea"in Australia,a Stanford Magazine, http://www.stanfordalumni.org/news/magazine/2000/marapr/articles/hoover.html.[back]

22. Murray River Tourism Proprietary Ltd., aAbout the Murray River,a http://www.murrayriver.com.au/about-the-murray/.[back]

23. National Archives of Australia, Water Dreaming, exhibit guide, doc.u.ment 5. http://www.naa.gov.au/images/waterdreaming_tcm2-2981.pdf.[back]

24. National Heritage Trust, aWater Resources in Australia,a (2000), 8.[back]

25. Wentworth Group of Concerned Scientists, aAustraliaas Climate Is Changing Australia,a http://www.wentworthgroup.org/uploads/3.%20Aust.Climate_is_Changing_Australia.pdf.[back]

26. Deborah Cameron, aWheat Imports Loom as Drought Bites,a Sydney Morning Herald, November 15, 2006.[back]