Kalahari Bushmen's fight for water
​Encroaching Dry Age
As vast swathes of planet Earth grapple with water crisis, comes a book from award winning US journalist turned water expert James G. Workman on how the Kalahari Bushmen fight the menace in Botswana, pitted against natural odds and an unkind government that backs the diamond mafia. The writer argues in his book how the last Busmen can help the world endure the coming age of permanent drought.
"There is a water crisis today. But the crisis is not about having too little water to satisfy our needs. It is a crisis of managing water so badly that billions of people - and the environment - suffer badly." World Water Vision Report
According to World Water Council, while the world's population tripled in the 20th century, the use of renewable water resources has grown six-fold. It says within the next fifty years, the world population will increase by another 40 to 50 percent along with urbanization and industrialization and will result in an increasing demand for water and will have serious consequences on the environment.
Amid the global concerns, arrives a book by James G. Workman, an award winning US journalist and former speech writer of Bill Clinton.
Workman's nonfiction narrative- Heart of Dryness- is set in the Kalahari region of Botswana. It dramatizes the timeless struggle over water, the fulcrum of political power. Facing drought, scarcity and climate change the besieged indigenous Bushmen use voluntary survival strategies while Botswana's government enforces regulatory rule and tried to evict them from their ancestral land.
Text: Trans World Features (TWF)
Images Courtesy: James G Workman and Survival International
