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When the Rivers Run Dry by Fred Pearce

When the Rivers Run Dry

Water--The Defining Crisis of the Twenty-First Century

by Fred Pearce
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  • First Published:
  • Mar 9, 2006, 320 pages
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  • Mar 2007, 336 pages
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