Take Me To The Source – Rupert Wright

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Take Me To The Source. In Search of Water Colourless, tasteless, odourless, ageless: water is both the simplest thing on earth and the most complex. We cannot live without it yet it kills six thousand children a day. It is the ultimate renewable resource but we pollute it on a heroic scale. In this enthralling voyage of discovery, Rupert Wright sets out to discover exactly what water is and why it plays such an important role in history, culture, art and literature. He penetrates to the heart of the development world supposedly bringing piped water to the poor, visits a bishop in Brazil willing to give up his life to save a river, and a child in India who waits by the roadside every morning for a bucket of water. And he describes Leonardo da Vinci’s drawings, the Parisian bar that …