When the Rivers Run Dry: Water--The Defining Crisis of the Twenty-first Century
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Saparmurat Niyazov
President-for-life of Turkmenistan from 1990 to his death in 2006.He was First Secretary of the Turkmen Communist Party from 1985 until 1991 and continued to lead Turkmenistan for 15 years after independence from the Soviet Union in 1991.Niyazov held the ...
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Mao Zedong
Mao Zedong, also transliterated as Mao Tse-tung, and commonly referred to as Chairman Mao (December 26, 1893 – September 9, 1976), was a Chinese communist revolutionary, politician and socio-political theorist. The founding father of the Peoples Rep...
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Pliny The Elder
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James Wolfensohn
Former President of the Worldbank.Sir James David Wolfensohn KBE AO (1 December 1933 – 25 November 2020) was an Australian-American lawyer, investment banker, and economist who served as the ninth president of the World Bank Group (1995–2005). During his ...
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Dai Qing
Opponent of Three Gorges Dam...
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Daniel Rosenfeld
Israels rain making guru. Expert in seeding clouds to make it rainmore...
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Bob Schemenauer
Pioneer in fog harvesting in 1990s. Creator of organization FogQuest....
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Andrew Parker
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Michael Evenari
Archaeologist, who excavated old settlements of the Nabaleans and used their rain water capturing technique to farm the Negev Desert. His example spread to India and other places...
