Essay on Pillar of Salt by Sandra Postel

Done for a geography class, about modern irrigation and the malthusian perspective.
This is essetially a book review
Checks should be done for gramatical errors
Pillar of Sand, written by Sandra Postel, illustrates the crisis that out modern irrigation age is facing. Our society is now one based on consumption. Meaning that the more that you consume the better and more powerful one is. The only problem is that on of our more important resources, water, is not meeting today's needs. There is simply more life on earth than out limited supply can sustain.
Robert T. Malthus is well known…