Water Consciousness: How We All Have to Change to Protect Our Most Critical Resource

Edited by Tara Lohan. Now available for $19.95 from AlterNet Books (www.waterconsciousness.com).

The WATER Institute's Brock Dolman has contributed a chapter to Water Consciousness: How We All Have to Change to Protect Our Most Critical Resource,  a comprehensive, solution-focused guide to the world's greatest environmental crisis. Water Consciousness assembles the leading environmentalists, including Bill McKibben, Vandana Shiva, Maude Barlow, Tony Clarke, Deborah Kaufman, Alan Snitow, and Wenonah Hauter, to delve into the crisis and what we can do about it. Authors cover conservation and efficiency, the role of new technology and design, and the need for policy that protects water for all people as a common trust and not a commodity. It is a book that will change not just your day-to-day activities but your thinking as well. To read the press release for this publication, click here.

The book Water Consciousness was inspired by the Water: H2O = Life exhibit, a ten year traveling exhibition on the global water crisis that was launched at the American Museum of Natural History in New York last year and is now at the San Diego Natural History Museum until November 30, 2008. There will be a series of lectures given by the contributors to this book at the museum in San Diego. In 2009 through 2010 it will be at te Science Museum of MN, St. Paul, the Field Museum in Chicago and the Great Lakes Science Center in Cleveland, Ohio.

We want to acknowledge the generous financial support of the Panta Rhea Foundation for funding Brock's participation in this publication.