Pillar of Sand: Can the Irrigation Miracle Last? by Sandra Postel

Pillar of Sand: Can the Irrigation Miracle Last?

Sandra Postel

313 pages first pub 1999 (editions)

nonfiction informative slow-paced
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For 6,000 years, irrigation has ranked among the most powerful tools of human advancement. The story of settled agriculture, the growth of cities, and the rise of early empires is, to no small degree, a story of controlling water to make the land ...

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