{"product_id":"9780374707859","title":"Deep Water: The Epic Struggle over Dams, Displaced People, and the Environment","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"If the wars of the last century were fought over oil, the wars of this century will be fought over water.\" -Ismail Serageldin, \u003ci\u003eThe World Bank\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe giant dams of today are the modern Pyramids, colossally expensive edifices that generate monumental amounts of electricity, irrigated water, and environmental and social disaster.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith \u003ci\u003eDeep Water\u003c\/i\u003e, Jacques Leslie offers a searching account of the current crisis over dams and the world's water. An emerging master of long-form reportage, Leslie makes the crisis vivid through the stories of three distinctive figures: Medha Patkar, an Indian activist who opposes a dam that will displace thousands of people in western India; Thayer Scudder, an American anthropologist who studies the effects of giant dams on the peoples of southern Africa; and Don Blackmore, an Australian water manager who struggles to reverse the effects of drought so as to allow Australia to continue its march to California-like prosperity. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTaking the reader to the sites of controversial dams, Leslie shows why dams are at once the hope of developing nations and a blight on their people and landscape. \u003ci\u003eDeep Water\u003c\/i\u003e is an incisive, beautifully written, and deeply disquieting report on a conflict that threatens to divide the world in the coming years.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47077660524784,"sku":"9780374707859","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780374707859_p0.jpg?v=1763690968","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780374707859","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}