Every Drop for Sale: Our Desperate Battle over Water in a World About to Run Out - Couverture souple

Rothfeder, Jeffrey

 
9781585423675: Every Drop for Sale: Our Desperate Battle over Water in a World About to Run Out
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ISBN 10 : 158542367X ISBN 13 : 9781585423675
Editeur : TarcherPerigee, 2004

Synopsis

An investigative journalist explores our world on the brink of running out of usable water.

Less than .0008 percent of the total water on Earth is fit for human consumption, but global consumption of fresh water is doubling every twenty years. Water has become perhaps our most precious commodity-a life-sustaining but increasingly rare and privatized resource. A dramatic gap exists between those who have adequate water for survival and those who don't, and tensions over water in some areas of the world hover just below open war.

From Europe to Asia to Africa to America, Jeffrey Rothfeder has visited the world's hot spots, those with the least amount of water, as well as places where there is so much of it that plans are in the works to sell the excess to the highest bidder. In this compelling narrative account of our world in turmoil over water, Rothfeder describes the issues and struggles of the people on all sides of the water crisis: from the scarred survivors of bizarre water-management practices, to those who are willing to die for water to sustain their families and crops, to the scientists and leaders who are trying to set things straight.

Important, provocative, and immensely readable, Every Drop for Sale explores a fascinating critical dilemma: As we run out of it, is water a fundamental right of everybody on Earth or just a product humans need that can be bought and sold like any other commodity?

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À propos de l'auteur

Jeffrey Rothfeder is a former Business Week editor and national news editor at Bloomberg News. The author of The People vs. Big Tobacco and Privacy for Sale, he has reported on water issues for national newspapers and has appeared on national television shows, including The Oprah Winfrey Show, Today, and 20/20. Rothfeder lives in Plainsboro, New Jersey.

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Éditeur
TarcherPerigee
Date d'édition
2004
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
158542367X
ISBN 13 
9781585423675
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
224
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
non disponible

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ISBN 10 :  1585421146 ISBN 13 :  9781585421145
Editeur : Jeremy P Tarcher, 2002
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