Water Stories

Sascha de Graaf (ed.) (2003)

There is a finite amount of water in our world and every drop is on an endless cycle of renewal. Do you ever wonder about the water you use today? Where it was last year? And where it will be next year? If our water could tell stories, would they be stories as strange as these...??

• Misheck Kirimi from Kenya travelled miles to fetch clean water, until his donkey refused to cross a river to deliver it.
• Mary Cahill Kurpiewski, an 11-year old entrepreneur from the USA, learned her lesson selling not-so-holy water to unsuspecting churchgoers.
• Paul van Vliet, Unicef Ambassador in the Netherlands, travelled to Eritrea and could not cope with the choice of what to drink in the aeroplane.
• Brian Little from the UK, helped to dig wells in Tanzania but learned a valuable lesson about customer choice.
• Ashish Singh from India was fascinated by the water world of the fish - until the day his world and theirs collided.

This book contains their stories and many others. Some are sad, others are funny. In combination with the many beautiful photos, they show how water is essential. The story of water is the story of humanity.

Target audience: Because of the easy-to-understand language, Water Stories is suitable for a broader audience as well as those working in the water sector. It would be an excellent gift for people interested in water.

Also available in Spanish (Cuentos del Mundo del Agua, ISBN 90-6687041-9) and Dutch (Spraakwater, ISBN 90-6687-040-0).

The book is downloadable from the IRC WASH Library.

Published with financial support from ICCO, Fabrique, Provincie Noord-Brabant and WL Delft Hydraulics.

- Series:

116 pages. 47 photographs. Also available in Spanish [WS-S] and Dutch [WS-D].

- ISBN:

ISBN 978-90-6687-039-0

- Price:

€ 23.50

- Order code:

WS-E