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Smart sobering and scholarly Steve Brusatte the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Rise and Fall of Dinosaurs

A gripping thoughtprovoking and ultimately optimistic investigation into the worlds 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 waterquality 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 Its 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 waterstressed countries not in the same predicament as Chennai or California

In The Last Drop awardwinning 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 its too late