Davis, Norah Deakin
Norah Deakin Davis, a professor of philosophy, is a deeply committed writer about environmental issues.

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The Mississippi, in its journey to the sea, flows through ten states with a population of forty million people. The Father of Waters, 1982.

Nuclear facilities are invariably located on riverbanks or along a coast, since large quantities of water are required for cooling. The liquid wastes discharged do not significantly raise the level of radioactivity in river water. But inevitably some isotopes are ingested by aquatic organisms, to be concentrated as they pass up through the food chain from prey to predator. Ibid.

A moving stream awakens the nomad in us. Its waters flow, as a riverboat captain once said, 'out of the mystery above, into the mystery below.' Ibid.