Water: The Fate of Our Most Precious Resource

China was especially mentioned as a prolific builder of another unnatural water diversion method

Aside from dams , the next problem area is the pumping of water from underneath the ground to irrigate agricultural lands . This is related to another destructive practice called water mining where there is a deliberate construction of gigantic facilities that will move huge volumes of water from a particular aquifer to a distant area

Villiers then move from the technical aspect of water shortage to the political aspect of the water crisis . At this point the author bring

the reader to the hotspots not only because the lands are relatively parched due to low moisture content but also because the people there are more than willing to use violence to get needed water supply

So the reader gets acquainted with the unique set of problems present in the Middle East . Villiers was able to make it clear that even if Israel is taken out of the equation , the future problems of sever water shortage will make neighboring nations more aggressive in asserting rights to water supply . Now , add Israel to that equation and one is looking at a potential powder keg of conflicts that could easily be ignited by a problem as serious as who gets to control water

From Palestine , Villiers bring the discussion to the Nile region and then makes a considerable jump to Northern America specifically the area where U .S , Canada and Mexico interact . What one can see here is a toned down version of the Middle East problem where neighboring countries are not in From North America , Villiers then brings the reader halfway around the world at the newly awakened economic dragon which is China . In the middle of the book de Villiers inserted a shocking truth , one that has been...