About the Author

Jacques Leslie is the author of The Mark: A War Correspondent's Memoir of Vietnam and Cambodia. His writing has appeared in Harper's, The Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times Magazine, and The Washington Monthly. He lives in Mill Valley, California.

Reviews

"Fascinating . . . Jacques Leslie is a fine writer. . . . No other book presents this issue to a lay reader so thoroughly and so persuasively." --The Seattle Times "Leslie delivers scene and mood with the economy and precision of a good novelist. His profiles are so well observed one forgets that the characters have not sprung from his own imagination." --Columbia Journalism Review "Leslie's edgy, potent, and in-depth inquiry unveils the drastic, unintentional consequences of dams and exposes yet more evidence of the catastrophic results of allowing greed and politics to trump science and justice." --Booklist "Leslie has written a volume that is heir, both in organization and in power, to Encounters with the Archdruid, John McPhee's classic profile of David Brower and his fight against dam-nation. . . . Superb." --Bill McKibben, OnEarth magazine "If the wars of this century were fought over oil, the wars of the next century will be fought over water." --Ismail Serageldin, former Vice President of the World Bank

"Fascinating . . . Jacques Leslie is a fine writer. . . . No other book presents this issue to a lay reader so thoroughly and so persuasively." --The Seattle Times "Leslie delivers scene and mood with the economy and precision of a good novelist. His profiles are so well observed one forgets that the characters have not sprung from his own imagination." --Columbia Journalism Review "Leslie's edgy, potent, and in-depth inquiry unveils the drastic, unintentional consequences of dams and exposes yet more evidence of the catastrophic results of allowing greed and politics to trump science and justice." --Booklist "Leslie has written a volume that is heir, both in organization and in power, to Encounters with the Archdruid, John McPhee's classic profile of David Brower and his fight against dam-nation. . . . Superb." --Bill McKibben, OnEarth magazine "If the wars of this century were fought over oil, the wars of the next century will be fought over water." --Ismail Serageldin, former Vice President of the World Bank