Writing the Global Water Crisis

This review essay reviews five recent additions to the literature on global water politics and management: Peter Annin, The Great Lakes Water Wars (Island Press, 2006); Fred Pearce, When the Rivers Run Dry: Water—the Defining Crisis of the Twenty-First Century (Beacon Press, 2006); Steven Erie, Beyond Chinatown: The Metropolitan Water District, Growth, and the Environment in Southern California (Stanford University Press, 2006); the United Nations World Water Assessment Programme, Water: A Shared Responsibility (UNESCO, 2006); and Peter Gleick, The World’s Water 2006–2007: The Biennial Report on Freshwater Resources (Island Press, 2006).