Book description
Colourless, tasteless, odourless, ageless: water is both the simplest
thing on earth and the most complex. We cannot live without it yet it
kills six thousand children a day. It is the ultimate renewable
resource but we pollute it without thinking twice. Why, if water is so
valuable does nobody want to pay for it unless it comes in a designer
bottle? Is it really the oil of the twenty-first century? Will we all
soon be fighting over it, or can it lead countries into co-operation
rather than conflict?
In this enthralling voyage of discovery, Rupert Wright sets out to
discover exactly what water is and why it plays such an important role
in history, culture, art and literature. Part reportage and part
personal journey, Take Me to the Source is the fascinating
story of the substance that makes life on earth possible.
Rupert Wright has been a journalist for more than twenty years,
writing for publications including the
Financial Times
, the
Washington Post
and the
European
. He has also worked for the World Bank and with the United Nation's
Betterworld Fund, co-ordinating a programme of workshops from Bangladesh
to Brazil. He is the author of
Notes from the Languedoc
and lives with his family in France.
