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The Last Drop - Solving the World's Water Crisis (Paperback)
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The Last Drop - Solving the World's Water Crisis (Paperback)
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List price R360
Price R198
Discovery Miles 1 980
You Save R162 (45%)
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Water scarcity is the next big climate crisis. Water stress – not
just scarcity, but also water-quality issues caused by pollution
– is already driving the first waves of climate refugees. Rivers
are drying out before they meet the oceans, and ancient lakes are
disappearing. Fourteen of the world’s twenty megacities are now
experiencing water scarcity or drought conditions. It’s
increasingly clear that human mismanagement of water is dangerously
unsustainable, for both ecological and human survival. And yet in
recent years some key countries have been quietly and very
successfully addressing water stress. How are Singapore and Israel,
for example – both severely water-stressed countries – not in
the same predicament as Chennai or California, but now boast
surplus water? What can we learn from them and how can we use this
knowledge to turn things around for the wider global community? Do
we have to stop eating almonds and asparagus grown in the deserts
of California and Peru? Could desalination of seawater be the
answer? Or rainwater capture? Are some of the wilder
‘solutions’ – such as the plan to tow icebergs to Cape Town
– pure madness, or necessary innovation? Award-winning
environmental journalist Tim Smedley will travel the world to meet
the experts, the victims, the activists and pioneers, to find out
how we can mend the water table that our survival depends upon. His
book will take an unblinking look at the current situation and how
we got there. And then look to the solutions. The Last Drop
promises to offer a fascinating, universally relevant account of
the environmental and human factors that have led us to this point,
and suggests practical ways in which we might address the crisis,
before it’s too late.
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