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And the Waters Turned to Blood Paperback – March 31, 1998

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  • Paperback: 363 pages
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster; Reprint edition (March 31, 1998)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0684838451
  • ISBN-13: 978-0684838458
  • Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 1.1 x 8.4 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (37 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #585,609 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 starsA perfect example of how far the bureaucracy can go to
By George Washington on August 9, 2000
Format: Paperback
This was a book that I just could not put down for the life of me. I had a test a school but instead of studying, I read this book. Shocking!!!!
A compelling book that portrays the gauntlet of bureaucracy that Dr. JoAnn Burkholder had to ordeal when she discovered something in the waters off of the Eastern Seaboard. The leaders of N.C.'s DEM, and the DEHNR showed their obvious distaste for her and her work when this information proved to be threatening "the machine" of business as usual.
What's most shocking about the whole things is 1. The lengths that the health department officials will go to cover this up, and truly not deal with an obvious health crisis; and 2. THIS IS A TRUE STORY that is still unfolding today off the East Coast.
Well written and with courage. 5 - stars!
"Get into the fight before it's too late"
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5.0 out of 5 starsHere's the book I've been waiting for
By A. McFarland on July 7, 1998
Format: Hardcover
Here's the book I've been waiting for, about pfiesteria piscicida (feast-eer-ee-ah pis-ki-seed-ah), the microscopic animal that is terrorizing the waters up and down the east coast of the U.S. (and perhaps coming soon to a waterway near you).
The main focus of the book is top researcher JoAnn Burkholder, and her struggle to get beyond the politics and bureaucracy of various agencies in North Carolina, in order to obtain funding to continue her research on the organism. The increased water pollution in recent years, in the form of livestock-manure runoff, and dumpings from industry, have created an environment that favors the flourishing of pfiesteria. It has at least 24 stages of life cycle, remaining in a dormant cyst stage until it senses the presence of fish. Then it comes to life, zapping the fish with a kind of neurotoxin and then eating holes in the fish. Humans who come into contact with water in which pfiesteria (in its toxic stage) is present, often suffer skin lesions that won't heal, memory loss, and disorientation. Chronic exposure can lead to personality changes and loss of cognitive function that emulates brain damage, which is what happened to lab worker Howard Glasgow, whose story is discussed in detail in this book.
It is a tale that seems familiar: a strong-willed scientist makes a major discovery about what is killing fish in North Carolina's waterways. Then she has to deal with greedy and jealous scientists who wish they had been the ones to make the discovery, and who try to ruin her career. Then she must face the media attention, and finds herself becoming an advocate for the citizens, who simply want to know if that thing that is harming the fish can harm humans too. There is plenty of anecdotal evidence to say YES.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsBe scared. Be very scared.
By A Customer on August 20, 1997
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Barker's AND THE WATERS TURNED TO BLOOD is a whooping good, well-told true story of thoughtful, good-natured people being screwed by egomanical, backside-covering bureaucrats and scientists who certain reviewers on-line would rather believe aren't really such bad guys. I, for one, am wholly convinced by Barker's careful investigation and analysis and am wholly sympathetic to the obvious Good Guys in this book.
To what degree were everyday Germans responsible for the Nazi Holocaust? Similarly, to what degree are the recalcitrant American media responsible for not covering wildly important stories such as the Pfiesteria plague, wholly preventable if greedy industries were forced to comply with precepts of human decency by being fined heavily for polluting? (Only a self-interested beaureacratic bimbo would deny the link between industrial pollution and the explosion of Pfiesteria blooms.)
Last week the Chesapeake Bay area was decimated by fishkills and Pfiesteria. Next week it will be some place else. Meanwhile, the media largely ignores the topic to avoid "mass hysteria" and to keep the profits flowing. To what degree are you, dear reader, responsible for not learning more about Pfiesteria by reading this book and then by making some irate phone calls and writing some irate letters because you'd enjoy a healthy America for future generations?
Our greatest living novelist, Kurt Vonnegut, suggests in an essay that carved on a Grand Canyon wall in great big letters for the flying-saucer people who arrive in a hundred years and find a dead planet with no people should be these messages: "WE PROBABLY COULD HAVE SAVED OURSELVES BUT WERE TOO DAMNED LAZY TO TRY VERY HARD. AND TOO DAMNED CHEAP." Rodney Barker's superlative book certainly supports this idea.
Richard Rhodes' DEADLY FEASTS, about the American Med-Cow disease cover-up, also supports Vonnegut's idea: we are too lazy and cheap to save ourselves
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4.0 out of 5 starsAnd the Waters Turned to Blood
By Kelly Short on February 10, 2004
Format: Paperback
Rodney Barker did an excellent job at enlightening his readers of the dangers of pollution, the devastating effects of Pfiesteria, and the power of a political machine. The tale developes the story of one dedicated scientists fighting to make the world aware of the rise of a toxic dinoflagellate. A professor at North Carolina State University, Dr. JoAnn Burkholder never imagined being presented with such a massive problem on her hands. After identifying the morphing dinoflagellate as Pfiesteria piscicida, Burkholder realized that her troubles would not stop at trying to identify characteristics of the organism; Burkkholder's biggest obstacle was trying to gain support for research from her peers, concerned citizens, and the North Carolina Department of Environmental Management. Eventually, fellow colleagues would believe her claim but the government only saw Burkholder as an annoyance needed to be silenced. At the same time, Pfiesteria was reeking havoc with numerous fish kills and reports of human symptoms including short-term memory loss and severe mood swings.
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1.0 out of 5 starsWorst book ever!

I had to read this book for school as a summer assignment and it was bad. The topic of the book is astonishingly boring. Read more

Published 8 months ago by Jill McDowell
5.0 out of 5 starsFive Stars

a must read!

Published 12 months ago by MZ
4.0 out of 5 starsExcellent story. Well written and researched.

I live in Florida and I have to say that this book resonated with me here. We've gone through the same thing with Florida waters and estuaries. Read more

Published on December 28, 2012 by Cathy
5.0 out of 5 stars...And so began my awareness of the environment....

I read this book years ago and it opened my eyes to the problems of our environment, and inspired me to became a better caretaker of our earth. Read more

Published on November 26, 2012 by TheSWalks
5.0 out of 5 starsFirst the deer, then the fish...

No end in sight to the mystery infestation! Even the researchers have to come to terms with being infected and must wrestle with saving their health or making great contributions... Read more

Published on April 17, 2010 by TeacherWorld
4.0 out of 5 starsAnd the Water's turned to bood

When I was assigned this by my environment science teacher I dreaded having to read it. I rarely like any sort of non fiction or science based book and I cringed when I saw the... Read more

Published on May 16, 2009 by Jenn
2.0 out of 5 starsa piece of yellow journalism

Aside from the literary value of this book which I am not going to judge, get this from a genuine Pfiesteria researcher, me:

Pfiesteria was NEVER proven to be the... Read more

Published on June 13, 2008 by Tomas Drgon
5.0 out of 5 starsStill an Now Book

I was simply amazed by reading this book. I just could not put it down after starting. And the Water Turned to Blood has been in my library for a few years and I finally picked... Read more

Published on December 9, 2007 by Joseph J. Slevin
4.0 out of 5 starsThe shape of things to come?

This is a book that really hit home in North Carolina a few years back. While the events related in this volume had already begun to shift environmental policy in the state, the... Read more

Published on November 18, 2007 by Cecil Bothwell
4.0 out of 5 starsReview of Mr. Rush's AP Environmental Science Class

This dramatic account of this toxic dinoflaggellate is factual and descriptive. The beginning is well-paced and keeps the reader's attention. Read more

Published on January 2, 2007

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