Includes bibliographical (pages 193-212) and index.
Contents
Prelude: writing water -- Theology and ethics for the new millennium -- A primer on the global fresh water crisis -- Water: human right or economic commodity? -- A right-to-life issue for the twenty-first century -- The agriculture/water nexus -- The Jordan River -- Climate change and water in the Anthropocene -- Water from rock: hydraulic fracturing -- Women, wells, and living water -- Coda: lessons in liquidity.