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Deep Water: The Epic Struggle Over Dams, Displaced People, and the Environment
Deep Water The Epic Struggle Over Dams Displaced People and the Environment
Author: Jacques Leslie
"If the wars of the last century were fought over oil, the wars of this century will be fought over water." -Ismail Serageldin, The World BankThe giant dams of today are the modern Pyramids, colossally expensive edifices that generate monumental amounts of electricity, irrigated water, and environmental and social disaster.With ...  more », Jacques Leslie offers a searching account of the current crisis over dams and the world's water. An emerging master of long-form reportage, Leslie makes the crisis vivid through the stories of three distinctive figures: Medha Patkar, an Indian activist who opposes a dam that will displace thousands of people in western India; Thayer Scudder, an American anthropologist who studies the effects of giant dams on the peoples of southern Africa; and Don Blackmore, an Australian water manager who struggles to reverse the effects of drought so as to allow Australia to continue its march to California-like prosperity. Taking the reader to the sites of controversial dams, Leslie shows why dams are at once the hope of developing nations and a blight on their people and landscape. Deep Water is an incisive, beautifully written, and deeply disquieting report on a conflict that threatens to divide the world in the coming years.
ISBN-13: 9780374281724
ISBN-10: 0374281726
Publication Date: 9/1/2005
Pages: 352
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Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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