Blue gold
By: Clive Cussler, with Paul Kemprecos
Contributors: Kemprecos, Paul.
Series: NUMA Files #2
Publisher: Pocket Books
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 378
Subjects: Austin, Kurt (Fictitious character) -- Fiction; Saline water conversion -- Fiction; Women scientists -- Fiction; Missing persons -- Fiction; Water supply -- Fiction; Terrorism -- Fiction; Adventure stories; South America -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Earth us a paradox - a fertile world three-quarters covered with water, yet in danger of running dry. Overuse and pollution have drained most of its fresh water, and scientist Francesca Carval's brilliant formula for desalination has vanished with her plane over South America. But when Kurt Austin and his NUMA team come across a pod of dead whales, their investigation takes them to the Venezuelan jungle where a cadre is bent on controlling the world's supply of fresh water.