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
 

The world is running out of water. Some of our largest rivers now trickle into sand miles from the ocean, exhausted by human need. Water is 'the new oil' - except we can live without oil; there are no alternatives to fresh water.

Fred Pearce explores the complex origins of the growing world water crisis. His vivid reportage reveals the personal stories behind failing rivers, barren fields, desertification, floods, water wars, and even the death of cultures.

Is there hope? Yes - but only if we revolutionize the way we treat water. This phenomenally important book shows us just how essential it is that each of us takes responsibility for the water we use now - before all our rivers run dry.

When the Rivers Run Dry by Fred Pearce has been selected as one of the Top 50 Sustainability Books as voted for by the University of Cambridge's Programme for Sustainability Leadership alumni network involving over 3,000 senior leaders from around the world.

...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

It's time to face up to the consequences of our actions. Reading this alarming book is a good place to start.
Mick Herron The Geographical Magazine

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

Pearce is a well-known and accomplished science journalist, so his journeys, plus his well-researched assessments, make his frightening conclusions all too convincing.
Paul Brown The Guardian Weekly

WHEN THE RIVERS RUN DRY is a fascinating read - at the heart of which lies a simple truth that none of us can afford to ignore.
Your Environment

Environmental journalist Fred Pearce's book, When the Rivers Run Dry could not be better timed
Robin McKie The Observer

Knowledgeable...well-written...Pearce's...thesis is surprisingly optimistic, since he...contends that to rise to the challenge and do something to avoid catastrophe is not beyond us.
The Good Book Guide

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

Unblinking look at the growing water crisis, both here and abroad.
Culture (supp. to the Sunday Times)

When the Rivers Run Dry is a timely book on an underreported issue...those who...take Pearce's tour through the global water crisis will be treated to an enriching and farsighted work.
Jai Singh San Francisco Chronicle

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

This is an excellent book that deserves a wide audience.
Fiona Archer www.ecozine.co.uk

Veteran science writer Pearce (Turning Up the Heat) makes a strong - and scary - case that a worldwide water shortage is the most fearful looming environmental crisis. With a drumbeat of facts both horrifc...and fascinating...the former New Scientist news editor documents a 'kind of cataclysm' already affecting many of the world's great rivers.
Publishers Weekly

This book is a timely warning about the water crisis we face...His vision of a not-too-distant future where wars are fought over water is terrifying, but the book also offers solutions.
Country Living

You've heard of the green revolution, but what about a blue revolution? That's what Fred Pearce believes is needed to solve the world's impending water crisis. Fascinating facts include the revelation that it takes 11,000 litres of water to feed enough cows to make a hamburger.
Scotland on Sunday

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