San Antonio College Library

"In Pillar of Sand, author Sandra Postel examines the challenges to our modern irrigation society - from mounting water scarcity and salinization of soils to rising tensions between countries over shared rivers. She explores irrigation's role in the rise and fall of early civilizations and connects the lessons of the past with the challenge of making irrigation thrive into the twenty-first century and beyond." "Pillar of Sand points the way toward...