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The Last Drop Solving The World's Water Crisis
The Last Drop Solving The World's Water Crisis
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Description: The Times Book of the Year pick Smart sobering and scholarly. Steve Brusatte the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Rise and Fall of Dinosaurs A gripping thought - provoking and ultimately optimistic investigation into the world's next great climate crisis the scarcity of water. Water scarcity is the next big climate crisis. Water stress not just scarcity but also 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. 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? In The Last Drop award - winning environmental journalist Tim Smedley meets experts victims activists and pioneers to find out how we can mend the water table that our survival depends upon. He offers a fascinating universally relevant account of the environmental and human factors that have led us to this point and suggests practical ways to address the crisis before it's too late.
Title: The Last Drop Solving The World's Water Crisis
Author(s): Smedley Tim
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Barcode: 9781529058178
Pages: 416 Pages
Publication Date: 6/17/2025
Category: Social Impact Of Environmental Issues
Description: The Times Book of the Year pick Smart sobering and scholarly. Steve Brusatte the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Rise and Fall of Dinosaurs A gripping thought - provoking and ultimately optimistic investigation into the world's next great climate crisis the scarcity of water. Water scarcity is the next big climate crisis. Water stress not just scarcity but also 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. 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? In The Last Drop award - winning environmental journalist Tim Smedley meets experts victims activists and pioneers to find out how we can mend the water table that our survival depends upon. He offers a fascinating universally relevant account of the environmental and human factors that have led us to this point and suggests practical ways to address the crisis before it's too late.
Title: The Last Drop Solving The World's Water Crisis
Author(s): Smedley Tim
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Barcode: 9781529058178
Pages: 416 Pages
Publication Date: 6/17/2025
Category: Social Impact Of Environmental Issues