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Throughout history, rivers have been our foremost source of fresh water both for agriculture and for individual consumption, but now economists say that by 2025. The rivers run dry is the first book by sibella giorello that ive had the pleasure to read. After the flood of noah, god set a boundary for the waters, that they turn not again to cover the earth psalm 104. His powerful reportage takes us to places where waterways. When the rivers run dry is not just enjoyable to read. Waterthe defining crisis of the twentyfirst century.
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