The first water shock
- From: Vol 8, Issue 8 (August 2007)
- Category: Analysis
- Region: Unspecified
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Christopher Gasson looks at the crisis facing agricultural water.
“It says we are all doomed”, was David Lloyd Owen’s cheerful recommendation of Fred Pearce’s When The Rivers Run Dry. I took it with me as my holiday reading last month, and I have to say he is right. The book, which chronicles the overexploitation of the world’s rivers, does paint a fairly gloomy picture of the ...
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