The Last Drop: Solving the World's Water Crisis

'Smart, sobering, and scholarly.' - Steve Brusatte, the Sunday Timesbestselling author of The Rise and Fall of Dinosaurs

A  gripping, thought-provoking and ultimately optimistic investigation  into the world’s next great climate crisis - the scarcity of water.

Water  scarcity is the next big climate crisis. Water stress – not just  scarcity, but also water-quality 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. It’s  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 water-stressed countries – not in the same  predicament as Chennai or California?

In The Last Drop,  award-winning 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 it’s too late.