Monday's Pick!

Dry Spring: The coming Water Crisis of North America.
Although this book's focus is on water, Chris Wood also examines the related climate changes such as ocean warming, the ferocity and duration of storms, and water management strategies (35 pages of citations in his bibliography). Wood succeeds in exloring the complexities of each of these and other topics and how they impact on the world's supply of fresh water. Perhaps the most interesting section is the one entitled, "Up in the Air: The Great Lakes' Uncertain Future" as it impacts on us directly. Anyone living in Ontario should pick up this book for this chapter alone. Wood suggests that the last three decades sharing water with our neighbors to the south haven't been "an easy glide down a lazy river". He ends the book identifying three transformations that have been and continue to change our world and how we live in it as well as his concerrns for people and countries who ignore the warnings of climate change and the looming water crisis.