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The Last Drop
- Solving the World's Water Crisis
- Narrated by: Tim Smedley
- Length: 14 hrs and 19 mins
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Summary
A gripping, thought-provoking and ultimately optimistic investigation into the world’s next great climate crisis - the scarcity of water.
Read by the author, Tim Smedley.
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. 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.
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- Anonymous User
- 04-09-23
The book to read on water scarcity and misuse
This book does an amazing job of showing the fragility and for some regions, near collapse of our current water resources. There are lots of great case, studies, figures and first person narratives in this book that make it both highly informative and engaging to read. This is a topic I've been interested in for a few years, so I'd read some of the studies referenced, but until now I'd never been able to find a good easy reading book on the topic.
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