(Part 2) Top products from r/Water

Probably a lot of readers of /r/water have read Cadillac Desert.

I own a copy of, and have made two false starts reading, The King Of California as recommend by the anonymous author of the blog On The Public Record.

I highly recommend A Great Aridness, a worthy heir to Cadillac Desert.

Also on my to-read list is Rising Tide. I would like to find a book that does for the Great Lakes what Marc Reisner did for water in the American West with his book Cadillac Desert.

A few things I've read this year that have little to do with water:

• The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
  
• The Future of the Mind: The Scientific Quest to Understand, Enhance, and Empower the Mind
  
• The Human Experiment: Two Years and Twenty Minutes Inside Biosphere 2
  
• The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies
  
• Citizenville: How to Take the Town Square Digital and Reinvent Government
  

Namaste! Yes. Have you worked in the water sector in India? I’ve worked on surface water and groundwater supply and quality, flood and drought warning and management in India through WB/FAO and USAID, especially with 14 States and seven Central agencies on early flood warning system in 2002. I’ve stayed at the National Institute of Hydrology and its affiliated Indian Institute of Technology in Roorkee and was impressed by its applied water resources research. I’ve also worked on watershed management and soil and groundwater recharge projects in India from 2004-2008. I also published an invited article in the Financial Times of New Delhi on India’s Water Resources and Arsenic Water Challenges in 2005. I've taught hydrology and water resources to many graduate students from the Subcontinent in the 1970s at the University of Arizona. If you think MENA and UAE are overpopulated, have you been to India? Is your interest in water commercial, academic, pedagogical, hobbyist or just curious? Is your interest in drinking water, irrigation, commercial, industrial, hydropower, energy water use? Are you still in elementary school? If you are keenly interested in water technologies, you might look into applications of direct solar pumps and desalination systems, dual solar/diesel generators, and hauling water barrels and water donky in rural areas. Incidentally, my thesis advisor wrote a charming book on his experiences in India: www.amazon.com/Irrigating-India-Years-USAID-Advisor/dp/0970653131. I gave out several copies of Sol's book to Indian water managers and agency heads on my first of several assignments in India in 2002. What do you specifically mean by "alternative water technologies?" Cloud seeding? Desalting saline aquifers? Rainwater harvesting? Watershed harvesting?

Here's one about tides.