Water And Spirit A Bibliography - Diocese of Oregon

1. WATER and SPIRIT
A BIBLIOGRAPHY
Aguilar, George W., Sr. When the River Ran Wild! Indian Traditions on the Mid-
Columbia and the Warm Springs Reservation. 2005, Oregon Historical Society
Press. A personal memoir and tribal history of the Eastern Chinookans, who lived and
worked for centuries connected to the rhythms and resources of the great fishing grounds
of the Columbia River. Aguilar helps us know what the River People have lost over the
decades, but he also gives testimony to what has been conserved and enlivened by a
people who love the land and who honor tradition and those who came before.
Duncan, David J. My Story as Told by Water: confessions, Druidic rants,
reflections, bird-watchings, fish-stalkings, visions, songs and prayers refracting
light, from living rivers, in the age of the industrial dark. 2001, Sierra Club Books.
Duncan braids his contemplative, activist and rhapsodic voices together into an
irresistibly distinctive whole, speaking with a power and urgency that will recharge our . .
.appreciation of the vital connections between our water-filled bodies and this water-
covered planet.
Barlow, Maude and T. Clark. Blue Gold: The Fight to Stop the Corporate Theft of
the World’s Water. 2002, The New Press. Increasingly, transnational corporations are
plotting to control the world’s dwindling water supply. Where water has already been
privatized, rates have soared and water shortages have been severe. Blue Gold captures
in striking detail the forces behind the increasing depletion of the world’s fresh water,
and the human and ecological impacts.
Childs, Craig. The Secret Knowledge of Water: Discovering the Essence of the
American Desert. 2000, Sasquatch Books. This story of exploration, science, and
woder takes the reader down unnamed ravines in a land made of stone, and across vast
arid expanses, in a quest for water, its tracks, or premonitions of its coming. This is an
extraordinary book compelling in its narrative and probing in its exploration of water’s
meaning in a dry place.
De Villiers, Marq. Water: The Fate of our Most Precious Resource. 2000,
Houghton Mifflin. Marq de Villiers scans the globe through a water lens – and writes
with eloquence, humor, and a rare kind of passionate intelligence about how water
scarcity is shaping the human future.
Moore, Kathleen Dean Moore. Riverwalking: Reflections on Moving Water. 1995,
Harcourt. In this collection of elegant essays the author invites us into a vast, complex,
partly hidden and startling world that has always been right before our eyes – on Puget
Sound, the Rogue River, the McKenzie, Bear Creek, The Deschutes, and more.

2. McDonald, Bernadette, and D. Jehl, eds. Whose Water Is It? The Unquenchable
Thirst of a Water-hungry World. 2003, National Geographic. At once a warning, a
call to action, and a sharply defined portrait of a parched Earth, this book offers the
insights of 14 environmental experts on the imminent crisis and their strategies for
ensuring an adequate supply for the evergrowing world of the 21st century.
Postel, Sandra. Pillar of Sand: Can the Irrigation Miracle Last? 1999, W.W.
Norton & Co. Pillar of Sand points the way toward protecting rivers and vital
ecosystems even as we aim to produce enough food for a projected 8 billion people by
the year 2030. Postel shows how innovative irrigation technologies can alleviate hunger
and environmental stress at the same time. And she calls for a new ethic of sufficiency
and sharing in response to impending water limits.
Reisner, Marc. Cadillac Desert: The American West and its Disappearing Water.
1986, Viking Press. The story of the relentless quest for a precious resource: water. It is
a tale of rivers diverted and dammed, of political corruption and intrigue, of billion-dollar
battles over water rights, of ecologic and economic disaster as well as the ruthless tactics
of Los Angeles and the bitter rivalry between the Bureau of Reclamation and the U.S.
Army Corps of Engineers.
Shiva, Vandana. Water Wars: Privatization, Pollution, and Profit. 2002, South
End Press. Shiva, a physicist, analyzes the historical erosion of communal water rights.
Examining the international water trade, damming, mining, and aquafarming, Shiva
exposes the destruction of the earth and the disenfranchisement of the world’ poor as they
are stripped of their right to a precious common good. Most important conflicts of our
time are in fact conflicts over scarce but vital natural resources.