Hardcover German-language non-fiction book about the Great Lakes with impressive landscape photographs. Published by the environmental foundation WWF Germany and Pro Futura GmbH. 
The indigenous peoples, whether Indians living around the North American lakes, Indios on Lake Titicaca or southern Mongolian steppe peoples around Lake Baikal, viewed “their” lakes as living beings, as gods, as benefactors. Today, this is of interest, at most, to anthropologists or ethnologists. After all, lakes can now be measured precisely and forced into manageable geographical and geological concepts. And their usefulness as drinking-water reservoirs, waterways or sources of fish can be quantified. They are under control. Or so one thinks.
And at some point, after human beings have disregarded or even mistreated “their” body of water for long enough, the body of water takes action. It withholds its fish, offers only undrinkable water and presents a murky picture. That is when environmental and nature conservationists have some chance of being heard: because a sick major body of water is a major problem.
What happens when the eyes of the Earth, the great bodies of water, go blind?
Fortunately, protection and restoration programmes now exist, and even where they do not yet exist, awareness is growing that the natural repair system cannot make up for every accident caused by humans. If what is prophesied in UN strategy papers is true, namely that water will become a contested resource, then the great freshwater seas will acquire a global political significance that is still unimaginable today. One more reason to turn our attention to them.
Number of pages: 255 
Hardcover with dust jacket