{"id":329,"date":"2011-05-25T17:57:33","date_gmt":"2011-05-25T21:57:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alexprudhomme.com\/new-website\/?p=329"},"modified":"2011-05-25T17:57:33","modified_gmt":"2011-05-25T21:57:33","slug":"kirkus-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alexprudhomme.com\/2011\/05\/25\/kirkus-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Kirkus review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/alexprudhomme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Ripple-Effect-jacket1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-375\" title=\"Ripple Effect jacket\" src=\"https:\/\/alexprudhomme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Ripple-Effect-jacket1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>The Ripple Effect: The Fate of Fresh Water in the Twenty-First Century<\/strong><br \/>\nFreelance journalist Prud\u2019homme (<em>The Cell Game: Sam Waksal\u2019s Fast Money and False Promises\u2014and the Fate of ImClone\u2019s Cancer Drug<\/em>, 2004, etc.) offers a<em> <\/em>comprehensive, even encyclopedic, survey of<em> <\/em>the dangers, debates, frustrations, failures, technology, greed, apathy and rage that whirlpool around the phenomenally complex issue of freshwater.<br \/>\nThe author conducted interviews with principals on all sides of the issue\u2014consumers, entrepreneurs, politicians, business executives, bureaucrats, the rich and the thirsty\u2014and visited key sites, and he provides a generally balanced view of the looming freshwater crisis. He educates us about the depletion of aquifers, the role of big business in the race for water (billions of dollars at stake), the demands that power generation (coal, nuclear) place on water resources, the effects of agricultural runoff on rivers, oceans and marine life, the process of wastewater treatment, global warming, the difference between \u201cgray water\u201d and \u201cblack water,\u201d the fragility of cities (due to water demand) as geographically distant as New York City and Los Angeles, the mining industry\u2019s passion for some prime Alaska real estate, droughts and floods, dams and salmon, desalination, shrinking reservoirs and our human determination to keep doing what we\u2019re doing until it\u2019s too late to save ourselves. Prud\u2019homme lauds the Dutch for looking ahead and protecting their land (at enormous expense), and the Singaporeans for their stewardship; praises Intel for recycling much of the water used in computer-chip fabrication; blasts the bottled-water industry, reminding us that about half of the products available are mere tap water\u2014and they generate all those throwaway bottles that most people don\u2019t bother to recycle. And what would a story about liquid gold be without a walk-on by T. Boone Pickens? Hopefully, the author\u2019s commonsensical solutions will be heeded.<br \/>\nAs essential work about a topic too-often ignored.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nAgent: Tina Bennett\/Janklow &amp; Nesbit<br \/>\n<strong>Publisher:<\/strong><em>Scribner<\/em> <strong>Pages: <\/strong><em>448<\/em> <strong>Price ( Hardcover ): <\/strong><em>$27.00<\/em> <strong>Price ( e-book ): <\/strong><em>$None<\/em> <strong>Publication Date:<\/strong>June 7, 2011\u2028<strong>ISBN ( Hardcover ): <\/strong><em>978-1-4165-3545-4<\/em> <strong>ISBN ( e-book ): <\/strong><em>978-1-4391-6849-3<\/em> <strong>Category: <\/strong>Nonfiction\u2028<strong>Classification: <\/strong>Nature and the Outdoors<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ripple Effect: The Fate of Fresh Water in the Twenty-First Century Freelance journalist Prud\u2019homme (The Cell Game: Sam Waksal\u2019s Fast Money and False Promises\u2014and the Fate of ImClone\u2019s Cancer Drug, 2004, etc.) offers a comprehensive, even encyclopedic, survey of the dangers, debates, frustrations, failures, technology, greed, apathy and rage that whirlpool around the phenomenally&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,4],"tags":[73],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.2 - 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