📗 Libro en inglés THE BIG THIRST

Praised as an entertaining and torrential flow of a book by Nature magazine The Big Thirst is a startling examination of the passing of the golden age of water and the shocking facts about how water scarcity will soon be a major factor in our lives The water coming out of your kitchen tap is four billion years old and might well have been sipped by a Tyrannosaurus rex Rather than only three states of water liquid ice and vapor there is a fourth molecular water fused into rock 400 miles deep in the Earth and that s where most of the planet s water is found Unlike most precious resources water cannot be used up it can always be made clean enough again to drink indeed water can be made so clean that it s toxic Water is the most vital substance in our lives but also more amazing and mysterious than we appreciate As Charles Fishman brings vibrantly to life in this surprising and mind changing narrative water runs our world in a host of awe inspiring ways yet we take it completely for granted But the era of easy water is over Bringing readers on a lively and fascinating journey from the wet moons of Saturn to the water obsessed hotels of Las Vegas where dolphins swim in the desert and from a rice farm in the parched Australian outback to a high tech I