![]() This real book is the foundation of The Water Knife, lending credibility and depth to the novel.Īlthough there are hints of romance, The Water Knife is a thriller first and foremost. The book’s main conclusion is that development-driven policies, formed when settling the West, are having serious long-term negative effects on the environment and water quantity ( Wikipedia). It gives the history of the struggle to remake the American West. ![]() This well-researched novel goes one step further: all the water company people own copies of Cadillac Desert by Marc Reisner, a 1986 non-fiction book subtitled The American West and its Disappearing Water. Paolo Bacigalupi is a master of post-apocalyptic climate change novels. These water rights are the stuff of legends, motivation to kill. Senior water rights were dug up by a paper-pusher. (All the way through I wanted to make Dune-esque spice puns and yet Dune may have been prescient regarding water here on Earth.) Angel tries to keep his publicly-observed activities above the minimum level of the law but, in private, he’s not so squeamish. Lucy Munroe is a Pulitzer-prize winning journalist who has spent the last 10 years in Phoenix, Arizona, writing about the collapse of the state as bore water dries up and states fight about river-water rights.Īngel is a water knife, a minion of a company whose profit - indeed its very survival - depends on keeping the water flowing. ![]()
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