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A review by mastercabs
The Ripple Effect: The Fate of Fresh Water in the Twenty-First Century by Alex Prud'homme
4.0
I only gave this book four stars because I think it's important. The nuts and bolts of the book are not enjoyable in the least. However, simply because it's unpleasant to look at the train that is barreling down on you, does not mean that looking away will make it go away. The case for water's plight is strong in this book - so strong, in fact, that when Prud'homme is offering solutions near the end, that you just cease to believe him.
He spends so much time (and documentation - the book is about half footnotes) compiling evidence for how we've mistreated our most valuable and common resource that by the end, the reader very much knows that in order for anything to change, our attitudes have to come first. Unfortunately, by the end, the reader also has seen how likely that is before disaster.
Still, the ideas that he spreads about soft engineering are certainly worth looking knowing about. Perhaps I am being cynical to say that I don't believe that such change will happen before more horrific disasters, but this book could be a start in the direction away from that.
He spends so much time (and documentation - the book is about half footnotes) compiling evidence for how we've mistreated our most valuable and common resource that by the end, the reader very much knows that in order for anything to change, our attitudes have to come first. Unfortunately, by the end, the reader also has seen how likely that is before disaster.
Still, the ideas that he spreads about soft engineering are certainly worth looking knowing about. Perhaps I am being cynical to say that I don't believe that such change will happen before more horrific disasters, but this book could be a start in the direction away from that.