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"Wood, a journalist and former editor at Maclean's magazine, provides an engaging introduction into the ecology and economy of North America's water supply now and in the near future... Dry Spring is a rebuttal to the arguments of hypernationalist Canadians such as Maude Barlow and her ilk who stand on guard to zealously protect our water from Uncle Sam.
They argue against the commodification of water. Wood counters that solving many of our water woes will require exactly that, and that much of the rhetoric about NAFTA and water exports is in fact propaganda." -- The Winnipeg Free Press, April 13, 2008
"[I]t's refreshing that Wood, breaking the custom of environmental books, doesn't lay it on too thick. He takes us to where runaway fires, drought, hurricanes and floods provide stark testimony to the speed of climate change, but he is too good a writer to flay the reader with endless horror stories... Would someone now please organize a nationally televised debate between Wood and Barlow?" -- Report on Business Magazine, April 2008
"[Wood]compiles strong evidence that we have stretched natural water systems to the limit and, in many cases, are already creating environmental deficits by damming rivers, draining aquifers and depleting ground waters to meet people's wants. We North Americans are the planet's gluttons, using nearly seven times as much water per person than the frugal Danes... To address this mess of our own making, Wood argues convincingly for using the tools of the market. If water were priced to represent its real environmental cost, we would use it more sparingly and trigger entrepreneurial creativity to help us use it more efficiently." -- The Vancouver Sun, April 12, 2008
