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 mi