Did you know the ancient Chinese used flooding as a weapon of war, or that the Dutch adopted this strategy to defend Holland in the 1500s, or that Machiavelli and Leonardo conspired to steal a river?
Read these stories in my new book about #water, #war, and #peace.
https://thenewpress.org/books/when-the-well-is-dry/
Peter Gleick
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