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Tapped Out: Water: The Coming World Crisis and What We Can Do About It
By Paul Simon and Dick Durbin
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Senator Paul Simon is warning that clean water is in short supply and that we must do something about it. He proposed that every nation in the world on an ocean build many desalinization plants and that we preserve our fresh water supply.
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