Outwater, Alice

Water : A natural history / Alice Outwater - New York : Basic Books, 1996 - xii, 212 p.

The fur trade, 3. -- Nature's hydrologists, 19. -- The woods, 35. -- The voyage of rainfall, 55. -- A sea of grass, 67. -- Plowing the plains, 85. -- The water over the dam, 101. -- Mussels, gators, and the corps, 117. -- Aqueducts and toilet bowls, 133. -- Down the drain, up the stack, 149. -- What sludge tells you, 165