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The water coming out of your tap is four billion years of age and may have been slurped by way of a Tyrannosaurus Rex. We will always have exactly as much water on the planet as we've ever had. Drinking water cannot be ruined, and it can always be made clean enough for having again. Actually, water can be made so clean which it actually becomes poisonous. As Charles Fishman brings vibrantly alive in this wonderful narrative excursion, water runs our world in a host of awe-inspiring ways, which is both promises and the peril of our unexplored relationships to it. Taking listeners from the damp moons of Saturn to the water-obsessed hotels of NEVADA, and from a grain plantation in the Australian outback to a glimpse into large vats of soup at Campbell's major factory, he unveils that our marriage to water is conflicted and irrational, neglected and mismanaged. Whether we will face a water scarcity crisis has little regarding water and everything regarding how exactly we think about water - how exactly we use it, connect with it, and understand it. Portraying and explaining both the problems - in 2008, Atlanta came up just 3 months from jogging completely out of normal water - and the opportunities, such as advances in rainwater harvesting and businesses that are making huge breakthroughs in water efficiency, The Big Thirst will forever change just how we think about water, our crucial marriage to it, and the creativeness we may bring to making sure we always have plenty of it.
