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Prud’homme, a journalist and the coauthor with Julia Child of My Life in France,\u00a0examines crucial issues concerning the world’s finite supply of fresh water–\u00a0pollution, water quantity (drought and flood), waste, and governance. Focusing on\u00a0the U.S., he explores how water scarcity, population growth, and environmental\u00a0degradation are forcing the country to a moment of reckoning on a scale not seen\u00a0since the passage of the Clean Water Act in 1972. And he notes how woefully\u00a0obsolete laws designed to protect drinking supplies in the 1970s are becoming, when\u00a0hundreds of untested new chemicals enter U.S. waterways every year, and the\u00a0majority of water pollution now comes from unregulated storm-water runoff, where\u00a0insecticides, fertilizers, paint, and motor oil are washed into the water supply.
\nPrud’homme offers ample and eloquent warnings of a looming water crisis: intersex fish in Chesapeake\u00a0Bay, the poisoning of water wells in Wisconsin from agricultural runoff, Lake Mead’s record-low\u00a0waterline in Nevada, decaying dams and levees. Prud’homme’s eloquence and local focus will help this\u00a0book rise to the top of the recent flood of water-themed books including Elixir by Brian Fagan and The\u00a0Big Thirst by Charles Fishman. (June)
\nReviewed on: 04\/25\/2011<\/em>
\nThe Ripple Effect: The Fate of Fresh Water in the Twenty-First Century
\nAlex Prud’homme. Scribner, $27 (448p) ISBN 978-1-4165-3545-4
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