As we’re increasingly seeing, extreme weather is the new normal and that’s one of the reasons AlterNet‘s newest book, Water Matters: Why We Need to Act Now to Save Our Most Critical Resource is so important. Our book assembles some of the best minds out there to break down what we are facing with a growing water crisis, and to connect the dots between climate change and our water woes. (You can buy the book here)

 

Beautiful photography and infographics, combined with essays from some of my favorite writers like Barbara Kingsolver, Bill McKibben, Maude Barlow, Tina Rosenberg, Sandra Postel, Elizabeth Royte and Wenonah Hauter, illustrate the dangers we’re facing, but also tell us what we need to be doing right now to get this planet back on track. This is a crisis affecting the U.S. and the rest of the world — from the California Delta to the Niger Delta and from Midwest to the Middle East.

 

This issue is literally life or death for millions of people and for the planet we call home. I hope you’ll choose to fight to save our most critical resource by buying a copy of Water Matters for yourself or a friend. Leading commentator Jim Hightower put it in perspective: “About two-thirds of our bodies are H2O, so water doesn’t just matter to us — it literally is us. So why are we letting our corporate and governmental leaders treat this essential life-sustaining resource so carelessly? That’s the core question posed by this beautifully written and beautifully designed book. Water Matters will engage, enrage and inspire you. Read it — and take action.”

 

You can buy your copy of Water Matters here — enjoy it while you’re trying to beat the heat (or cold, or rain, or drought or …).

 

 

 

Tara Lohan

Senior Editor
Environment, Food, and Water