by Erik Orsenna · Fayard · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782213634654
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«L'avenir de l'eau» is Erik Orsenna's essay on global water resources, published by Fayard in paperback (411 pages, in French).
Orsenna travels from the Nile to the Huang He and from the Amazon to Australia to find out whether there will be enough water to drink, grow crops and avoid conflicts. He interviews scientists, farmers and dam builders, analyzes water storage, treatment and pollution, and highlights climate inequalities and public-private partnerships.
Second volume in the «Petit précis de mondialisation» series (subtitle: «petit précis de mondialisation II»). Winner of the Prix Joseph Kessel 2009.
Suitable for readers interested in ecology, the environment and globalization who are looking for a non-fiction work with travel and field testimonies.
Érik Orsenna is the pen-name of Érik Arnoult a French politician and novelist. After studying philosophy and political science at the Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris, Orsenna specialized in economics at the London School of Economics. He was a close collaborator of François Mitterrand and held several government positions in the 1980s and 1990s. He is a member of the Conseil d'État, having been appointed in 1985. He was elected to the Académie Française on 28 May 1998. He won the 1990 International Nonino Prize in Italy. For Voyage au pays du coton he received the second prize of the Lettre Ulysses Award in 2006.
