Review: Water Woes

Chris Wood’s Dry Spring is a politically astute and journalistically refined look at the upcoming water woes of the new world. Wood, a veteran international journalist and former editor of Maclean’s, has written for The Globe and Mail, the Financial Post and The Walrus. His highly informative, eleven-chapter volume looks at the ways in which rising temperatures are leading to severe water scarcity across the world. Wood convincingly demonstrates that the “by-products of our industrial society have penetrated the deepest oceans, highest peaks and furthest poles in the form of rising ambient temperatures, scraps of plastic and an alphabet soup of chemicals. Our challenge now is to survive our own success. ...