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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
Cheryl Gene Colopy |
| ISBN: | 9780199845019 0199845018 |
| OCLC Number: | 778827785 |
| Description: | xiii, 400 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | Dirty, sacred rivers -- The real poop: how rivers become sewers -- Delhi's Yamuna -- Melting ice rivers -- The shrinking third Pole -- In the valley of Dhunge Dhara -- Melamchi River blues -- More river blues -- Belji of Dhulikhel -- The sorrows of Bihar -- The Koshi's revenge -- The engineers -- The Garland -- Susu -- Beyond barrages and boundaries -- Poisoned blessings -- Where the rivers end. |
| Responsibility: | Cheryl Colopy. |
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<br>"Colopy offers a whirlwind tour both beautiful and troubling.... [she] interacts as a Westerner in the South Asian world with grace, and shares what she has learned with thoughtful clarity." -- Publisher's Weekly<p><br>"an important addition to the documentation of the ecological impact of population growth and development in South Asia." -- Library Journal<p><br> Read more...
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