Dry: Life Without Water.DRY: Life Without Water EHSAN MASOOD Ehsan Masood is a writer and journalist based in London, writing mainly about science, international development and the politics of the Muslim world. He writes a fortnightly column for the online magazine Opendemocracy.net and is a consultant to the Science and Development Network. AND DANIEL SCHAFFER, EDITORS AS many as 1 billon bil·lon n. 1. An alloy of gold or silver with a greater proportion of another metal, such as copper, used in making coins. 2. An alloy of silver with a high percentage of copper, used in making medals and tokens. people live in places where there is hardly enough water to survive. The cultures there can be rich or poor, but many are among the oldest in the world. They survive because people have developed ingenious in·gen·ious adj. 1. Marked by inventive skill and imagination. 2. Having or arising from an inventive or cunning mind; clever: an ingenious scheme. See Synonyms at clever. 3. ways to capture water from their environments. For instance, the highland people of the Atacama Desert Atacama Desert (ätäkä`mä), arid region, c.600 mi (970 km) long, N Chile, extending south from the border of Peru. The desert itself, c. in northern Chile set up boat-sail-size nets to collect water droplets from the fog that comes in off the ocean. The 10-or-so liters that each square meter Noun 1. square meter - a centare is 1/100th of an are centare, square metre area unit, square measure - a system of units used to measure areas collects a day is enough for a village's drinking, cooking, and washing. The Masai people in Africa rely on strict conservation of the limited water they have, while people in India and Pakistan build small dams by their homes to collect rainwater. Each chapter tells such a story, as written by people ranging from science writers to researchers to advocates for developing nations. The authors and photographers transform this academic material into a lively presentation. Harvard Univ. Press, 2006, 192 p., color photographs, hardcover, $29.95. |
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