Environment, cultural identity, ethnolinguistics. These are this book subjects. By studying denominative place the author develops a deep and sensible research related to space modified by the construction of five-reservoirs to supply water to Sao Paulo Metropolitan Region. This work intensely investigates a fundamental subject for inhabitants of metropolis in modernity: the seeking for water. This research focus is the Tiete River, supplier of all water to complex system known as Alto Tiete Producing System. Knowing this river history is extremely important to understand the growth of the...