Alice B. reviewed When the Rivers Run Dry: Water--The Defining Crisis of the Twenty-first Century on + 3563 more book reviews
This is a most interesting book about water in our future world.We have dammed our Rivers dry. Instead of irrigating we are turning land into deserts and salinating what is left so heavily that nothing will grow. We need to understand now and take Action so we will have water in our future and in our children's future.
A strong and scary case that a worldwide water shortage is the most fearful looming environmental crisis. With a drumbeat of facts both horrific (thousands of wells in India and Bangladesh are poisoned by fluoride and arsenic) and fascinating (it takes 20 tons of water to make one pound of coffee), the former New Scientist news editor documents a 'kind of cataclysm' already affecting many of the world's great rivers.
"Oil we can replace. Water we can't which is why this book is both so ominous and so important."
A strong and scary case that a worldwide water shortage is the most fearful looming environmental crisis. With a drumbeat of facts both horrific (thousands of wells in India and Bangladesh are poisoned by fluoride and arsenic) and fascinating (it takes 20 tons of water to make one pound of coffee), the former New Scientist news editor documents a 'kind of cataclysm' already affecting many of the world's great rivers.
"Oil we can replace. Water we can't which is why this book is both so ominous and so important."
