| Book Review | Environmental History, 13.3

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Book Review

Mirage: Florida and the Vanishing Water of the Eastern U.S. By Cynthia Barnett. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2007. 240 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth $24.95.
In Mirage: Florida and the Vanishing Water of the Eastern U.S., Cynthia Barnett captures the diversity of threats to freshwater. Moreover, she gives the various water issues a face by identifying an individual, a place, or an image that reveals the essence of the problem. In Barnett's deft narrative, Florida serves as a microcosm with examples of the many issues that face other sections of the United States, most notably the western states. Yet, Barnett demonstrates that the status of freshwater supplies in the east in general, and in Florida specifically, deserves comparable concern.	1
For example, overuse threatens the groundwater supply in Florida. Whereas the conversion of farmlands to suburbs has led to a decline in water consumption in other parts of the country, the opposite has been the case in Florida. Despite tropical storms and 150 billion gallons of rainfall daily, and an additional 26 billion gallons that arrive from neighboring states via rivers, Floridians now dispose of more water every day than the water cycle can replenish.	. . .

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