Traveling the 38th Parallel -- Subvention -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Epigraph -- Contents -- Introduction -- PART I ASIA -- The Four Rivers "Restoration" Project -- Ecological Recovery behind Barbed Wire -- China's Yellow River Delta -- The South-North Water Transfer Project -- National Parks of Ningxia -- Up the Yellow River to Lanzhou's Green Camel Bell -- Qinghai - Blue Lake of the Tibetan Plateau -- Hotan to Kashgar on the Southern Silk Road -- The Edge of China and Turkmenistan -- Hasankeyf in Peril on the Tigris River -- Fairy Chimneys, Tuz Golu, Travertine, and a City That Lost Its Port -- PART II EUROPE -- Greek Islands, Athens, and the "Navel of the Earth" -- Saving Migratory Raptors and Drinking Water in Sicily's Mafia-Dominated Culture -- Spain's Coastal Lagoons, Water for Growth, and Iberian Lynx -- Portugal's Transported Town, a Solar Donkey, and the Azores -- PART III UNITED STATES -- Chesapeake Bay Watershed Education -- The Rappahannock River and Mattawoman Creek -- Mountaintop Removal Coal Mines in West Virginia -- Midwestern Rivers and the Population Center of the United States -- Seagulls in Kansas and the Santa Fe Trail -- Mining the Ogallala Aquifer -- Colorado, the Headwaters State -- Colorado River Cleanup and Groundwater for Las Vegas -- PART IV CALIFORNIA: A WATER LINE TO THE PACIFIC -- Mono Lake to the Sierra Crest -- Grand Canyon of the Tuolumne to Hetch Hetchy -- Friends of the River and New Melones Reservoir -- The Sacramento - San Joaquin Delta -- Strait to the Bay -- Point Reyes and the Pacific Coast -- PART V RENEWAL AND RECOVERY -- Recovery on the Tsunami Coast -- It Takes a Village to Save the Toki -- We Are Bodies of Water -- Acknowledgments -- Bibliography -- Index.