WATER SHELF

December 7, 2025

Visit the Water Shelf main page FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Aaron Mead, amead@ameadwriter.com, 626-616-4473 Debut fiction: A body in a...

WATER SHELF PODCAST: “Living with Water Scarcity” by David Zetland

August 31, 2025

Visit the Water Shelf main page David Zetland⁠ gives a powerhouse interview on his many decades of writing on water, the commons, and climate change. He discusses his recently reissued book ⁠Living with Water Scarcity (2014/2023)⁠ which does a wonderful...

WATER SHELF PODCAST: “Replumbing the City” by Sayd Randle

July 11, 2025

Visit the Water Shelf main page In this episode, ⁠Sayd Randle⁠ joins us from Kathmandu, Nepal, to talk about her...

BOOK REVIEW: Replumbing the City: Water Management as Climate Adaptation in Los Angeles

May 26, 2025

Visit the Water Shelf main page Los Angeles’s water supply is a topic of near-mythological scope, extending back to its...

WATER SHELF PODCAST: “Too Good to Be True” by Paul Brown

April 18, 2025

Visit the Water Shelf main page ⁠Paul Brown⁠ joins the Water Shelf Podcast to discuss his unique, trailblazing, and entertaining book, ⁠Too Good to Be True: Scottsdale and Privatization in the 1980s (2020)⁠. His detailed account of a water treatment...

NEW BOOK: Discover the Birds of the California Delta in New Illustrated Guide written by Aaron N. K. Haiman and illustrated by Martha Espinoza

April 12, 2025

From Heyday Press: Birds of the California Delta, a beautifully illustrated new guide by lifelong birder and Delta resident Aaron...

BOOK REVIEW: Planet Aqua: Rethinking Our Home in the Universe

March 1, 2025

Visit the Water Shelf main page The concept of our planet being misnamed “Earth,” when in fact 75% of its...

WATER SHELF PODCAST: “Water: A Biography” by Giulio Boccaletti

February 17, 2025

Visit the Water Shelf main page Giulio Boccaletti provides a master class on water, politics, and social organization in this fascinating discussion of his book Water: A Biography (Pantheon Books, 2021). His “story of people and water” traces the historical...

WATER SHELF PODCAST: “Water Management” by Shimon Anisfeld

January 20, 2025

Visit the Water Shelf main page Shimi Anisfeld kicks off Season 2 of the Water Shelf Podcast by introducing his...

NEW BOOK: Waters of the United States: POTUS, SCOTUS, WOTUS, and the Politics of a National Resource

January 20, 2025

Visit the Water Shelf main page By Julie Greene In 2023, the Supreme Court made one of its most devastating...

BOOK REVIEW: Water Management: Prioritizing Justice and Sustainability

December 1, 2024

Visit the Water Shelf main page Listen to this review: I have never taken a water management course, but I can imagine the topics such a course might cover: the water cycle and hydrology basics, the history of water...

The Water Shelf Top 20

December 1, 2024

Visit the Water Shelf main page The following “Top 20” list of books on my water shelf are personal favorites...

NEW BOOK: Planet Aqua: Rethinking Our Home in the Universe

September 29, 2024

Visit the Water Shelf main page By Mike Ricciardi We are waking up to the reality that we live on...

WATER SHELF PODCAST: “Liquid Asset” by Buzz Thompson