Tapped Out: The Coming World Crisis in Water and What We Can Do About It - Softcover

Simon, Paul

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1566492211 ISBN 13: 9781566492218

Publisher: Welcome Rain Publishers, 2001

Synopsis

Former Senator Paul Simon delivers stirring eveidence of a catastrophic water crisis which will explode upon the global community unless drastic measures are taken in all corners of the world, including in our own backyards.

About this title

About the Author:

Paul Simon is a former member of the United States Senate, and now director of the Public Policy Institute at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. In 1988 he unsuccessfully sought the Democratic nomination for President.

This is his seventeenth book

From Publishers Weekly:

Simon, a former Democratic senator from Illinois, delivers a call-to-arms to citizens and political leaders to act to save the world's water supply. "Within a few years," he writes, "a water crisis of catastrophic proportions will explode on us." Simon, who was a newspaperman before he was a politician, is a clear and forceful writer who makes use of compelling statistics to outline the looming crisis: 9500 children die every day due to thirst or polluted water and a projected three billion people will be living in regions afflicted by severe water shortages in just 25 years. Among the most immediate problems Simon covers are vanishing groundwater reserves in California, polluted drinking water in India and the potential for geopolitical violence in the arid Middle East. Simon urges governments to step up their support for desalination, conservation and pollution control. He also calls for policy changes such as charging consumers for the actual cost of conveying their water. Although suffering from a drought of firsthand vignettes and individual case studies, Simon's book is well reasoned and well researched and deserves serious attention?not least because he offers the bracing example of a former public servant still committed to the intelligent and informed discussion of a pressing issue. First serial to Parade.
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Welcome Rain Publishers
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 1566492211
• ISBN 13: 9781566492218
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208