‘The Ripple Effect’ portrays bleak water future worldwide
There are already captivating and important books aplenty about water — from Peter Annin’s prescient 2006 “Great Lakes Water Wars” to National Geographic’s marvelous 2010 essay compilation, “Written in Water: Messages of Hope for Earth’s Most Precious Resource.”
But crafting a tightly written, thoroughly researched, almost encyclopedic book about the state of fresh water in the 21st century is a still worthy feat. Alex Prud’homme pulls it off nicely in fewer than 400 pages in “The Ripple Effect.”
The Brooklyn, N.Y., writer co-authored the well-received “My Life in France” with his great aunt Julia Child. Their chats about bottled water started Prud’homme on his treatise about this “deceptively plain substance.”
The first three parts cover water Quality (“America seems to be hydrologically blessed,” yet the Clean Water Act was violated half a million times from 2004-09), Drought (the “creeping disaster” threatening the Southwest and West) and Flood (levees protect 156 million Americans, 55 percent of the population, and yet 2006 was the first-ever attempt at a national inventory of levees).
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