[prakruti] Book Review:When the Rivers Run Dry by Fred Pearce

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At 03:30 PM 8/5/07, you wrote:

>[prakruti] Book Review: " When the Rivers Run Dry " by Fred Pearce

>prakruti

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>Recently a friend stated that the major problem the world faces today is

>not oil but our water reserves.

>He also suggested reading the book " When the Rivers Run Dry " .

>I just finished reading the chapters on India and Pakistan two nations

>striving to uplift their infra structures of which water management is an

>important component affecting the lives of 1.5 Billion people.Their report

>cards on that score so far, are bleak!

>

>Prakruti members may wish to look at this book:

>

> " When the Rivers Run Dry: Water--The Defining Crisis of the Twenty-first

>Century by Fred Pearce (Paperback - Mar 7, 2007)

>

> From Publishers Weekly

>

>Starred Review. Veteran science writer Pearce (Turning Up the Heat) makes

>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.----

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>Click to read on:

>http://www.amazon.com/When-Rivers-Run-Dry-Water/dp/0807085731/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/1\

04-8281510-2546312?ie=UTF8 & s=books &

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