num_pages: 192
description: The riveting story of a heroic girl who fights for her belief that water should be for everyone.Minni lives in the poorest part of Mumbai where access to water is limited to a few hours a day and the communal taps have long lines. Lately though even that access is threatened by severe water shortages and thieves who are stealing this precious commodityan act that Minni accidentally witnesses one night. Meanwhile in the high-rise building where she just started to work she discovers that water streams out of every faucet and theres even a rooftop swimming pool. What Minni also discovers there is one of the water mafia bosses. Now she must decide whether to expose him and risk her job and maybe her life. How did something as simple as access to water get so complicated?
language: English
title: Thirst
publisher: Nancy Paulsen Books