Water: the epic struggle for wealth, power, and civilization

Abstract

I read this wide-ranging and thoughtful book while sitting on banks of Ganges near Varanasi-it's a river already badly polluted, and now threatened by melting of loss of 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, same is true world over; this volume will give you background to understand 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 primary cause of global conflicts that increasingly emanate from drought-ridden, overpopulated areas of 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.

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