Following Russia’s aggressive war in Ukraine, the world is suddenly gripped by concerns over energy security. And yet, there is an even greater threat ahead – one that is much more likely to shape the events of the twenty-first century than the competition for oil or gas.

The combination of an ever-increasing global population, climate change, industrialisation, urbanisation and limited natural resources means that one difficulty, above all, will shape the political, economic and security environment in the years ahead: that is water. If people and nations will fight for fossil fuels, it is nothing compared to what they will do for the most vital natural resource of all.

As both a citizen who has supported water charities and worked in the NHS and a politician who has dealt with security and economic issues, Liam Fox tells the story of water and the problems it presents in a more complete way than ever before. The Coming Storm unites a range of concerns that are often written about separately but seldom together and provides a comprehensible and compelling call for urgent action.

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‘‘In this well-researched but disturbing book, Liam Fox cogently recounts the causes and course of the global water crisis, but he also sets out a viable way to solve it. His recommendations need to be adopted soon; time is running out.’’

Andrew Roberts, co-author of Conflict: The Evolution of Warfare from 1945 to Ukraine and author of The Storm of War

“Politics at its biggest. An astonishingly wide-ranging account of man’s relationship with water, from deep prehistory to our extremely worrying near future.”

Andrew Marr, journalist and broadcaster

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