While Rivers make up just a fraction of the water on Earth, they provide the majority of what we use every day.
In rhyming text, the fascinating story of daylighting, unearthing and restoring buried Rivers to their rightful places as source of well-being and beauty, comes to life..
Finally, a group of naturalists realized that freeing buried Rivers could be the answer to managing urban waterways.
But this solution brought more problems.
In a short-sighted attempt to address these issues, city planners buried old Rivers beneath city streets.
Disease and flooding were often the result.
But over the centuries as cities grew, the Rivers became polluted by sewage and industrial waste, and their natural flow patterns were disrupted.
But do we fully understand or even appreciate all that Rivers can do? All over the world, cities large and small were built near Rivers because of what they can provide: drinking water, transportation, power sources.
Rivers run over and through our world, and sometimes we don\'t even know they are there.
While Rivers make up just a fraction of the water on Earth, they provide the majority of what we use every day
