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Depending on your degree of interest in the topic, you may have heard of El Rio Wade Davis. The book by Wade can be downloaded online for free thanks to its Creative Commons license. All you need is the reader App Calibre! The book is worth reading not just because of its geographical relevance but also for what it says about environmentalism in general. It was written in 1985 and it speaks to us today in an equally powerful voice. The question is not if El Rio will dry up, but when? How soon? Or never? As water becomes scarcer, wealthy riverside cities are tempted to redirect their dwindling supply away from the lower classes living downstream with little regard for their needs or possible consequences. Ultimately, they will find it difficult to resist the lure of pursuing their own self-interest. "They will be faced with huge bills to upgrade their sewage treatment plants or run the risk of losing water altogether. They know that if they refuse, they will be held liable for future water damage." Wade presents a solution using ideas gained from the work he did for the German Federal Environmental Protection Agency (UBA) working on hydropower dam issues in Africa and Venezuela (together with his father ). The book is full of examples and explains the complex problems related to harnessing rivers due to dams. Wade takes on one of these concepts which sees the potential of turning any river into a giant "waste incinerator". He describes how these waste incinerators, can be used to produce electricity and heat and how they could be built on existing dams in countries like Bolivia and Venezuela where large reservoirs and irrigation systems exist. El Rio (the Human) is not a dry bookkeeping manual for government bureaucrats or engineers, but a philosophical inquiry into the causes of poverty in the rest of the world, which Wade sees as being rooted in water shortages. In his closing remarks, Wade writes: "Those who have read this book will remember the story of El Rio—the River that became a symbol of human folly. Some people will ask 'what is wrong with that?" The answer is clear. Lots of things are wrong with that. Not least of which is the fact that so many people are suffering unnecessarily because they have no choice—or they don't know enough to have a choice. But the most pernicious flaw I would submit is in the people who have not come to understand how their actions are contributing to this tragedy." "We will remember too, that with El Rio there was another story—the story about the wide-eyed boy with his dreams of fireflies and his childlike curiosity about how his world worked. Then there were others in town who viewed him as a nuisance, only fit for water carrying. The boy was not much use when it came to growing crops or making money. He was too small. And, in fact, by that measure many children are not very useful at all. Still, he had his dreams. Just like us." Warmer Climate Runoff, Rising Sea Level and More Drought : "As the climate warms the rainfall will fall where few humans live—and it will be without benefit to them." "They can become stranded along river banks or in deserts or on mountaintops waiting for help that is coming too late." It is widely believed that El Rio does not have to end in disaster. eccc085e13