TY  - GEN
AU  - Boccaletti, Giulio
TI  - Water: a biography
SN  - 9781524748234
U1  - 909 
PY  - 2021///
CY  - New York
PB  - Pantheon Books
KW  - Geopolitics--Political science
KW  - Global history
KW  -  Water--Political aspects
KW  - Water--Political aspects--History
KW  - Environmental policy
N1  - Includes notes, index and references
N2  - Writing with authority and brio, Giulio Boc­caletti—honorary research associate at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, Univer­sity of Oxford—shrewdly combines environmental and social history, beginning with the earliest civ­ilizations of sedentary farmers on the banks of the Nile, the Tigris, and the Euphrates Rivers. Even as he describes how these societies were made possible by sea-level changes from the last glacial melt, he incisively examines how this type of farming led to irrigation and multiple cropping, which, in turn, led to a population explosion and labor specialization.
 
We see with clarity how irrigation’s structure informed social structure (inventions such as the calendar sprung from agricultural necessity); how in ancient Greece, the communal ownership of wells laid the groundwork for democracy; how the Greek and Roman experiences with water security resulted in systems of taxation; and how the modern world as we know it began with a legal framework for the development of water infrastructure.

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/602733/water-by-giulio-boccaletti
ER  -