SuitabookRunning dry
Stuart A. Kallen
- Reading
- Read together and pause at the book’s questions. Invite your child to distinguish the pressures it identifies from the solutions it considers, and to notice whose perspectives are included.
- Themes
- Water scarcity and access: The book considers dwindling resources and unequal access to safe drinking water amid rising demand. It frames water availability as a global issue with pressures on supply and access.
- Protecting water resources: The overview names pollution, climate change, drought and overconsumption among factors linked to dwindling freshwater resources. The book presents several pressures on freshwater, but its treatment of their relative importance is not known.
- Conservation and collective action: The book asks whether conservation is enough and whether governments, businesses and individuals can work together to protect water. These questions establish the book’s concerns, but do not reveal which actions or policies it favours.
- Worth knowing
- The subject includes pollution, drought and shortages of safe drinking water. How much detail the book gives about these problems, or their effects on particular communities, is unclear.