Not A Drop To Drink, America�s Water Crisis, By Ken Midkiff
Not A Drop To Drink, America’s Water Crisis, By Ken Midkiff New World Library Novato, Calif., 2007, 196 pages ISBN 978-1-930722-68-2 (Reviewed By William J. Angelo) Picture a mass migration of people, lines of modern Conestoga wagons—SUVs, RVs, crew-cabs and cars—moving from the western U.S. to the East in the coming decades and you may have a disturbing vision of America’s looming water crisis. Residents west of the 100th meridian are living on borrowed time by creating a new Dust Bowl built on federal farm subsidies, cheap water and bad attitude, according to author Ken Midkiff.
Midkiff paints a bleak picture of water abuse that includes irrigating arid areas, building a desert urban sprawl, subsidizing wasteful agribusiness, draining critical aquifers, battling over river water, and the “take it before someone else does” mentality of government and business leaders. It spells disaster for U.S. food production and quality of our life, he says.