Urban Boundary and Water Use

Blue Revolution: Unmaking America's Water Crisis by Cynthia Barnett This book should be required reading for Florida residents and elected officals. Salt water incursion is not far in our future. We are digging overly deep holes for rock pits to feed excessive development. We waste water brushing our teeth, watering our lawns, keeping golf courses green, and sending our waste water to the ocean preventing our ability to swim in it. As development continues beyond current urban boundaries, we dig more wells, but have no plan to recycle current well water. The ethic described can help us maintain water in the future and prevent possible water wars.

In Blue Revolution, award-winning journalist Cynthia Barnett reports on the many ways one of the most water-rich nations on the planet has squandered its way to scarcity, and argues the best solution is also the simplest and least expensive: a water ethic for America. From backyard waterfalls and grottoes in California to sinkholes swallowing chunks of Florida, Blue Revolution exposes how the nation’s green craze largely missed water – the No. 1 environmental concern of most Americans. But the book is big on inspiration, too. Blue Revolution combines investigative reporting with solutions from around the nation and the globe. From San Antonio to Singapore, Barnett shows how local communities and entire nations have come together in a shared ethic to dramatically reduce consumption and live within their water means. The first book to call for a national water ethic, Blue Revolution is also a powerful meditation on water and community in America.