What would you do if you turned on the faucet one day and nothing
happened? What if you learned the water in your home was harmful to
drink? Water is essential for life on this planet, but not every
community has the safe, clean water it needs. In When the World Runs
Dry, award-winning science writer Nancy Castaldo takes readers from
Flint, Michigan, and Newark, New Jersey, to Iran and Cape Town, South
Africa, to explore the various ways in which water around the world is
in danger, why we must act now, and why you're never too young to make a
difference.
Topics include: Lead and water infrastructure problems, pollution,
fracking contamination, harmful algal blooms, water supply issues,
rising sea levels, and potential solutions.