Water - The Epic Struggle for Wealth, Power, and Civilization (Paperback)

"I read this wide-ranging and thoughtful book while sitting on the banks of the Ganges near Varanasi-it's a river already badly polluted, and now threatened by the melting of the loss of the glaciers at its source to global warming. Four hundred million people depend on it, and there's no backup plan. As Steven Solomon makes clear, the same is true the world over; this volume will give you the background to understand the forces that will drive much of 21st century history." -Bill McKibben In Water, esteemed journalist Steven Solomon describes a terrifying-and all too real-world in which access to fresh water has replaced oil as the primary cause of global conflicts that increasingly emanate from drought-ridden, overpopulated areas of the world. Meticulously researched and undeniably prescient, Water is a stunningly clear-eyed action statement on what Robert F Kennedy, Jr. calls "the biggest environmental and political challenge of our time."

General

Imprint:	HarperPerennial
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	February 2011
First published:	2011
Authors:	Steven Solomon
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 28mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	596
ISBN-13:	978-0-06-054831-5
Categories:	Books > Science & Mathematics > Science: general issues > Popular science Books > Earth & environment > Earth sciences > The hydrosphere > Hydrology (freshwater)
LSN:	0-06-054831-2
Barcode:	9780060548315

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