While petroleum was the dominant natural resource influencing world events throughout the 20th century, by most indications, the one poised to usurp its position in the 21st – to be the source of geopolitical conflict and unrestrained economic exploitation – is water. While you’re mulling that one over, consider as well just how much you actually know about water itself. If you’re like most people, you’ve likely not given it much thought beyond secondary school science classes.
Which is why the publication of Professor John Finney‘s new book Water: A Very Short Introduction is so timely indeed. Like all its predecessors in Oxford University Press’ brilliant VSI series, this new book contains all the information you need to quickly achieve a more thorough and nuanced understanding of this scientifically fascinating biological necessity and soon-to-be headline-dominating natural resource.
