When the Rivers Run Dry: Water--The Defining Crisis of the Twenty-First Century

Author:   Fred Pearce
Publisher:   Beacon Press
ISBN:  

9780807085738


Pages:   324
Publication Date:   01 March 2007
Format:   Paperback
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When the Rivers Run Dry: Water--The Defining Crisis of the Twenty-First Century


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In this groundbreaking book, veteran science correspondent Fred Pearce travels to more than thirty countries to examine the current state of crucial water sources. Deftly weaving together the complicated scientific, economic, and historic dimensions of the world water crisis, he provides our most complete portrait yet of this growing danger and its ramifications for us all. Named as one of the Top 50 Sustainability Books by University of Cambridges Programme for Sustainability Leadership and Greenleaf Publishing.

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Author:   Fred Pearce
Publisher:   Beacon Press
Imprint:   Beacon Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.90cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9780807085738


ISBN 10:   0807085731
Pages:   324
Publication Date:   01 March 2007
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Stock Indefinitely
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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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.--Publishers Weekly, starred review <p/> Oil we can replace. Water we can't--which is why this book is both so ominous and so important. --Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature


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.-- Publishers Weekly, starred review<br><br> Oil we can replace. Water we can't--which is why this book is both so ominous and so important. --Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature


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 @lt;i@gt;New Scientist@lt;/i@gt; news editor documents a 'kind of cataclysm' already affecting many of the world's great rivers.--@lt;i@gt;Publishers Weekly, @lt;/i@gt; starred review@lt;br@gt;@lt;br@gt; Oil we can replace. Water we can't--which is why this book is both so ominous and so important. --Bill McKibben, author of @lt;i@gt;The End of Nature@lt;/i@gt;


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Fred Pearce is an award-winning author and journalist based in London. He has reported on environmental, science, and development issues from 85 countries over the past 20 years. An environment consultant at New Scientist magazine since 1992, he also writes regularly for the Guardian newspaper and Yale University's prestigious e360 website. Pearce was voted UK Environment Journalist of the Year in 2001 and CGIAR agricultural research journalist of the year in 2002, and he won a lifetime achievement award from the Association of British Science Writers in 2011. His many books include Falllout, With Speed and Violence, Confessions of an Eco-Sinner, The Coming Population Crash, and The Land Grabbers.

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