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In the center of the Mojave Desert, NEVADA casinos use vast amounts of gallons of drinking water for fountains, pirate lagoons, influx machines, and indoors canals. Meanwhile, the town of Orme, Tennessee, must pick up truck in drinking water from Alabama since it has literally run out.Robert Glennon captures the irony - and tragedy - of America's drinking water crisis in a booklet that is both terrifying and wickedly comical. From created snow for vacationers in Atlanta to trillions of gallons of drinking water flushed down the bathroom every year, Unquenchable unveils the heady extravagances and each day inefficiencies that are sucking the nation dry.The looming catastrophe remains concealed as administration diverts supplies in one area to some other to keep drinking water flowing from the faucet. But eventually, the shell game must end. And when it does, shortages will threaten not only the environment, but every part of American life: we face shuttered vitality plant life and jobless employees, decimated fi sheries and polluted drinking water.We can not engineer our way out of the situation, either with traditional fixes or zany techniques to tow icebergs from Alaska. Actually, new needs for water, specially the enormous supply necessary for ethanol and energy development, will only get worse the crisis. America must make hard choices - and Glennon's answers are fittingly provocative. He proposes market-based alternatives that value drinking water as both a product and a simple individual right.One real truth works throughout Unquenchable: only when we understand water's worthy of will we get started to save it.
