For more than 40 years, the American economy has prospered while our national environmental protections expanded. While our work has saved lives and prevented illnesses, these actions have also contributed directly to job creation and economic growth, above and beyond the benefits of improved health.

      Judith Enck, EPA Region 2 Administrator
      Jennifer Thatcher, Senior Program Analyst, EPA
       Region 2
      Jim Young, National Education Director, BlueGreen
      Alliance
      Robert Kopp, Associate Director, Rutgers Energy       Institute and Assistant Professor, Department of       Earth & Planetary Sciences
      David York, Senior VP of Sales & Marketing,
      WorldWater & Solar Technologies

As the climate warms and world population grows, demand for water has surged, but supplies of freshwater are static or dropping, and new threats to water quality appear every day. The Ripple Effect is Prud’homme’s vivid and engaging inquiry into the fate of freshwater in the twenty-first century. Prud’homme traversed the country, and he takes readers into the heart of the daily dramas that will determine the future of this essential resource—from the alleged murder of a water scientist in a New Jersey purification plant, to the epic confrontation between salmon fishermen and copper miners in Alaska, to the poisoning of Wisconsin wells, to the epidemic of intersex fish in the Chesapeake Bay, to the wars over fracking for natural gas.

       Paul Simon, EPA Regional Climate Change
       Program Advisor
       Anthony Broccoli, Professor, Department of
       Environmental Sciences at Rutgers University
       Dena Mottola, Executive Director, Environment New
       Jersey
       Randall Solomon, Co-Director of the Institute for
       Sustainability Planning and Governance at the
       College of New Jersey