When I was a little girl, my father would sing songs to me all the time about water. Our water has become so toxic that towns are issuing emergency boil notices and shipping in bottled water to their residents. We are in a water crisis beyond anything you can imagine. We’re taught from the time we’re young to ask for permission: permission to leave the dinner table, permission to use the bathroom during class. Her new book Superman’s Not Coming: Our National Water Crisis and What We the People Can Do About It will be published 25 August 2020

Source: The Guardian August 24, 2020 15:22 UTC