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Outlines the problems of the water supply crisis and the steps that need to be taken to avoid disaster

WILL WE GO TO WAR OVER WATER?
THE QUOTABLE PRESIDENT JIMMY CARTER: "With Tapped Out, Paul Simon has issued an important warning which, if heeded, has the potential to avert a devastating natural disaster." EXCERPT FROM BOOKLIST REVIEW, 10/15/98: "Two new books from a recently retired U.S. Senator: the prospect doesn't sound particularly appetizing. But Simon is no ordinary ex-legislator: he has a newspaper background and a deserved reputation as a maverick. His. . .analysis of the world shortage of potable water should have more than regional appeal. . .U.S. citizens tend to feel water is a problem only for distant, primitive nations. Tapped Out provides a fine example of Simon's considered judgement. He devotes three of his six chapters in the first section, "The Problem," to water shortages in {CA, NV, FL,} and other parts of the U.S. The second section, "Answers," begins with a discussion on desalination (a vital technology the government and U.S. companies have regrettably ignored for years), followed by conservation pollution treatment, population control, and political and institutional changes. . .water will clearly be, as Simon argues, either a devastating source of international friction or a hopeful occasion for international cooperation in the twenty-first century." --Mary Carroll EXCERPT FROM PW, 11/2/98: Simon, a former Democratic senator from {IL}, delivers a call-to-arms to citizens and political leaders to act to save the world's water supply. "Within a few years," he writes," a water crisis of catastrophic proportions will explode on us." Simon, who was a newspaperman before he was a polititian, is a clear and forceful writer who makes use of compelling statistics to outline the looming crisis. . . Among the most immediate problems Simon covers are vanishing groundwater reserves in {CA}. polluted drinking water in India and the potential for geopolitical violence in the arid Middle East. . . .Simon's book is well reasoned and well researched and deserves serious attention--not least because he offers the bracing example of a former public servant still committed to the intelligent and informed discussion of a pressing issue.