Traveling the 38th Parallel: A Water Line around the World Book

Introduction: Parallel Universe 38° North

Part I. Asia

The Four Rivers "Restoration" Project Ecological Recovery behind Barbed Wire China's Yellow River Delta The South-North Water Transfer Project National Parks of Ningxia Up the Yellow River to Lanzhou's Green Camel Bell Qinghai—Blue Lake of the Tibetan Plateau Hotan to Kashgar on the Southern Silk Road The Edge of China and Turkmenistan Hasankeyf in Peril on the Tigris River Fairy Chimneys, Tuz Golu, Travertine, and a City That Lost Its Port

Part II. Europe

Greek Islands, Athens, and the "Navel of the Earth"
Saving Raptors and Water in Sicily Spain's Coastal Lagoons, Water for Growth, and Iberian Lynx Portugal's Transported Town, a Solar Donkey, and the Azores

Part III. United States

Chesapeake Bay Watershed Education The Rappahannock River and Mattawoman Creek Mountaintop Removal Coal Mines in West Virginia Midwestern Rivers and the Population Center of the United States Seagulls in Kansas and the Santa Fe Trail Mining the Ogallala Aquifer Colorado, the Headwaters State Colorado River Cleanup and Groundwater for Las Vegas

Part IV. California: A Water Line to the Pacific

Mono Lake to the Sierra Crest Grand Canyon of the Tuolumne to Hetch Hetchy Friends of the River and the New Melones Reservoir The Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Strait to the Bay Point Reyes and the Pacific Coast

Part V. Renewal and Recovery

Recovery on the Tsunami Coast It Takes a Village to Save the Toki We Are Bodies of Water

Acknowledgments Bibliography
Index