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OverviewThe water coming out of your tap is four billion years old and might have been slurped by a Tyrannosaurus Rex. We will always have exactly as much water on Earth as we have ever had. Water cannot be destroyed, and it can always be made clean enough for drinking again. In fact, water can be made so clean that it actually becomes toxic. As Charles Fishman brings vibrantly to life in this delightful narrative excursion, water runs our world in a host of awe-inspiring ways, which is both the promise and the peril of our unexplored connections to it. Taking listeners from the wet moons of Saturn to the water-obsessed hotels of Las Vegas, and from a rice farm in the Australian outback to a glimpse into giant vats of soup at Campbell's largest factory, he reveals that our relationship to water is conflicted and irrational, neglected and mismanaged. Whether we will face a water scarcity crisis has little to do with water and everything to do with how we think about water-how we use it, connect with it, and understand it. Portraying and explaining both the dangers-in 2008, Atlanta came just ninety days from running completely out of drinking water-and the opportunities, such as advances in rainwater harvesting and businesses that are making huge breakthroughs in water productivity, The Big Thirst will forever change the way we think about water, our crucial relationship to it, and the creativity we can bring to ensuring we always have plenty of it. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Charles Fishman , Stephen HoyePublisher: Tantor Media, Inc Imprint: Tantor Media, Inc Edition: Unabridged library ed Dimensions: Width: 17.20cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 16.50cm Weight: 0.162kg ISBN: 9781452630786ISBN 10: 145263078 Publication Date: 12 April 2011 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Audio Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsA timely warning about the dwindling global water supply. ---Kirkus Author InformationCharles Fishman, the author of the New York Times bestseller The Wal-Mart Effect, a finalist for the Goldman Sachs- Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award, has worked for the innovative business magazine Fast Company since 1996. Stephen Hoye has won more than a dozen AudioFile Earphones Awards and two prestigious APA Audie Awards, including one for Rich Dad, Poor Dad by Robert T. Kiyosaki. He has recorded many other notable titles, such as Every Second Counts by Lance Armstrong and The Google Story by David A. Vise and Mark Malseed. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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