{"product_id":"killing-the-hidden-waters-9780292764392","title":"KILLING THE HIDDEN WATERS","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the quarter-century since his first book  Killing the Hidden Waters  was published in 1977  Charles Bowden has become one of the premier writers on the American environment  rousing a generation of readers to both the wonder and the tragedy of humanitys relationship with the land. Revisiting his earliest work with a new introduction  \"What I Learned Watching the Wells Go Down \" Bowden looks back at his first effort to awaken people to the costs and limits of using natural resources through a simple and obvious examplewater. He drives home the point that years of droughts  rationing  and even water wars have done nothing to slake the insatiable consumption of water in the American West. Even more timely now than in 1977  Killing the Hidden Waters remains  in Edward Abbeys words  \"the best all-around summary Ive read yet  anywhere  of how our greed-driven  ever-expanding urban-industrial empire is consuming  wasting  poisoning  and destroying not only the resource basis of its own existence  but also the vital  sustaining basis of life everywhere.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45651857014837,"sku":"ByrdShop_0292764391","price":807.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780292764392.jpg?v=1781842383","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/killing-the-hidden-waters-9780292764392","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}