When the Rivers Run Dry: Water--The Defining Crisis of the Twenty-first Century
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ISBN: 0807085731 / Publisher: Beacon Press, March 2007
Traveling to more than 30 countries to define the scientific, economic and historical dimensions of the water crisis, offers a solution based on managing the water cycle for the maximum social good, rather than pure self-interest. Reprint.
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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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