Alok Jha (2016) | Water Wars




Festival of Dangerous Ideas show

Summary: Will we run out of water – and if so, when? Will the Earth suffer? Explore how water drives modern conflict and is not about to stop. Alok Jha is the science correspondent for ITV News in the UK. Before that, he did the same job at The Guardian for a decade. He has also reported live from Antarctica and presented many TV and radio programmes for the BBC. Alok's latest book The Water Book looks into water, and how it has shaped the Earth, it's life and our civilisation.