Preface : A Journey in WaterPART I: THE NEW UNCERTAINTY ABOUT WATER 1. To the rivers in heaven and the centre of the world 2. A pump tour in the Netherlands 3. The icy barrens that became the world's 'hot spot' 4. The city that refuses to drown 5. The Aztecs' 'land on water' and the Mayans' subterranean water world PART II: IN THE TIME OF THE WATER LORDS 6. South Africa's brief 'water war' 7. A water festival in Spain 8.

To the Nile 9. Where the Blue Nile and the White Nile meet 10. Dams and baptisms in Ethiopia 11. On the Scandinavian rain coast 12. Dethroning the powers of the monsoon 13. Flood plain 14. To the Himalayas and the 'war in heaven' 15. Where the most sacred river is toxic 16.

The dark horse at the roof of the world 17. "Cool" water - Paris and LourdesPART III: A NEW WATER AGE 18. Walking on water in California 19. In the Sahara - a new man-made Nile Valley 20. History's grandest engineering project in China 21. Turn Those Siberian Rivers Around Now! 22. To the subterranean 'great lake' in the ancient land of the Indians 23. An island of the sagas enters the age of water Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index.