When The Rivers Run Dry: What Happens When Our Water Runs Out? - Rilegato

"If ever a book has been written that demands to be read it is this one. This is that rare thing - a journey through a hugely important and complex subject in the company of a natural storyteller who makes you feel intelligent." (Tim Smit)

"Of all the travel books I have ever read this is the most frightening, the most inspiring and the most important...A book every politician must be made to read and understand." (David Bellamy)

"Unlimited clean water is so utterly taken for granted that it slides beneath our consciousness, not worth thinking about. We should be grateful, then, that Pearce has done our thinking for us. He has not written a polemic. More evangelist than doomsayer, he writes with controlled passion about a subject that carries him to the edge of despair but in which he divines a few precious drops of hope...River by river, continent by continent, Pearce illuminates the folly of trying to control a natural force with concrete and steel...The lessons are there to be learnt. All those responsible for learning them should stay their hand until they have read this book." (The Sunday Times 2006-03-19)

"Fred Pearce is an outstanding campaigning journalist and this terrifying yet ultimately optimistic book is a work of overwhelming importance" (Tam Dalyell)

"...Pearce argues powerfully that unless mankind can rethink its whole attitude towards the use and misuse of resource, the consequence could be famine, pestilence and even war for huge numbers of human beings." (Trevor Grove Daily Mail 2006-02-18)

Fred Pearce has travelled the World to provide the most complete portrait yet of the causes of the world water crisis - THE resource crisis for the 21st century. Calling for a 'blue revolution' , he finds new solutions that will surprise most readers.