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The Big Thirst
The Secret Life and Turbulent Future of Water
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Book Summary
Explores every facet of water and examines the issues surrounding water scarcity and what can be done to ensure that humans have plenty of clean water in the future. By the best-selling author of The Wal-Mart Effect. 60,000 first printing.
This book is about:
- Water consumption,
- Water use,
- Water supply,
- Water resources development
NPR stories about The Big Thirst
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Feats Of Strength: Hawaiian History, The Wild West, And Being A Small Business
In a Fast Company cover story published in 2007, Fishman examined how the bottled water industry turned what was once a free natural resource into a multibillion-dollar business. He expands his investigation of the water industry in The Big Thirst, which examines the future of a natural resource that, Fishman says, we can no longer take for granted. "The last 100... more
Author Interviews
The Worldwide 'Thirst' For Clean Drinking Water
April 11, 2011 Investigative reporter Charles Fishman says the past 100 years have been the golden age of water in the developed world — but now that's about to change. He profiles communities grappling with water shortages and details the efforts to conserve water in The Big Thirst.
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