Overview

Join Dr Chris Carter and the Friends of the National Library for an enlightening talk about how water is essential for human survival.

Archaeologist Dr Chris Carter will describe some of the ways people have managed water for power and pleasure. Travel from the driest deserts in the world – the Atacama Desert of Chile and the Arabian Peninsula – to the lush, terraced hillsides that produce prodigious quantities of grain in the Philippines, from the slopes of Andean Peru to Australia's long history of water management. Uncover how humans gained access to and control of water, and how that has impacted on lifeways with both positive and negative results.