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DESCRIPTION:A Water Watcher's Education\nSaturday, August 9 - 7:00PM\n\nJacques Leslie 
 will discuss today's global water situation. Renowned reporter and writer, 
 Mr. Leslie is uniquely posed to offer what we must understand to create 
 critical, decisive change. He will read from his Harper's Magazine cover 
 story on water scarcity, his book Deep Water, and other recent 
 investigative work.\n\nIt was water and the damming of water which created 
 the contemporary struggles between our industries and our natural world. 
 The conflicts still rage where they started here at Hetch-Hetchy and 
 continue on globally where the consequences are pertinent to us all.\n\nFor 
 the last decade Jacques Leslie has been writing narrative nonfiction about 
 the world’s most pressing environmental problems. His Harper’s Magazine 
 cover story, “Running Dry: What Happens When the World Runs Short of 
 Freshwater?” was included in The Best American Science Writing 2001 and 
 was a finalist for the John B. Oakes award in environmental journalism. 
 Leslie continues his exploration of water issues in his book, Deep Water: 
 The Epic Struggle Over Dams, Displaced People, and the Environment, 
 published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux. Deep Water won the J. Anthony Lukas 
 Work-in-Progress Award, was named one of the top science books of the year 
 by Discover Magazine, and was a finalist for the Northern California Book 
 Award in nonfiction. His most recent extended effort is the cover story of 
 Mother Jones Magazine’s January/February 2008 issue, called “The Last 
 Empire: Can the world survive China’s rush to emulate the American way of 
 life?” A letter to the editor called it “the best article I've read in 
 the last 10 years—on any subject—in any magazine.”\n\nMr. Leslie 
 began his journalism career covering the Vietnam War for the Los Angeles 
 Times. He won the Sigma Delta Chi award for foreign correspondence and an 
 Overseas Press Club citation for his work during two years in Vietnam and 
 Cambodia. He was also expelled from South Vietnam after reporting numerous 
 exclusive stories, including becoming the first American journalist to 
 enter and return from Viet Cong territory in South Vietnam. After Vietnam, 
 he was stationed successively in Phnom Penh, Washington, New Delhi, Madrid, 
 and Hong Kong, and was twice nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. He wrote a 
 book about his experiences called The Mark: A War Correspondent’s Memoir 
 of Vietnam and Cambodia, published in 1995. He also won the 2006 Drunken 
 Boat Pan-Literary Award in Nonfiction for a narrative nonfiction story 
 about a shoe repairman in his home town, Mill Valley, California.\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/08/02/18522099.php
SUMMARY:A Water Watcher's Education -Jacques Leslie at Red Hill
LOCATION:Red Hill Books\n401 Cortland Avenue\nBernal Heights\nSan Francisco, CA  
 94110\n415-648-5331\nhttp://www.dogearedbooks.com/redhill\nredhillattentionspan@yahoo.com
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/08/02/18522099.php
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