ISBN : 9780190246402
Reviving lost wetlands is vital to the long-term health of human communities and the waters that sustain them. The Marsh Builders interweaves the tale of a citizen uprising against conventional sewage treatment with the history of water pollution and the emerging scientific understanding of wetlands as effective natural filters for tainted water.
Introduction
Chapter 1: Cholera's Frontiers
Chapter 2: Tides of Change
Chapter 3: The Microbe Solution
Chapter 4: Emperor Joseph's Roots
Chapter 5: Strangled Waters: First Wave
Chapter 6: Fighting the Big Sewage Machine
Chapter 7: The United States of Vanished Wetlands
Chapter 8: Revolution
Chapter 9: Do-It-Yourself Wetlands
Chapter 10: Strangled Waters: Second Wave
Chapter 11: Wild Things
Chapter 12: Things Fall Apart
Chapter 13: The Tide Rises