The Dammed by Fred Pearce
This study explores the people and the politics behind the power of water, one of the key issues for the world in the coming decades. The author examines the squabbling that is already breaking out over the fate of great international rivers, such as the Nile and the Ganges. As the best dam sites are used up, underground water stores are plundered and global warming empties the reservoirs. Pearce looks at the huge new aqueducts that will criss-cross the continents and discusses the prospect of them being the cause of future wars. Technocrats foresee a world in which rivers are like water mains with steel-lined sources and concrete beds. They will be owned and valued according to the rules of the market place. The stock exchange might deal in water futures. But environmentalists want rivers, like rainforests, maintained as living natural features. They want to use nature, as humans always have, but not to "tame" it. The author contributes to "The Observer", "The Daily Telegraph", "The Guardian" and "New Scientist". Other books by the author include "Watershed: The Water Crisis in Great Britain", "Acid Rain", "Green Warriors" and "Turning Up the Heat".
Fred Pearce is an award-winning author and journalist based in London. He has reported on environmental, science, and development issues from 85 countries over the past 20 years. An environment consultant at New Scientist magazine since 1992, he also writes regularly for the Guardian newspaper and Yale University's prestigious e360 website. Pearce was voted UK Environment Journalist of the Year in 2001 and CGIAR agricultural research journalist of the year in 2002, and he won a lifetime achievement award from the Association of British Science Writers in 2011. His many books include Falllout, With Speed and Violence, Confessions of an Eco-Sinner, The Coming Population Crash, and The Land Grabbers.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780370316093 |
| ISBN 10 | 0370316096 |
| Title | The Dammed |
| Author | Fred Pearce |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 1992-08-27 |
| Number of pages | 376 |
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