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In recent years, Leslie has focused most of his attention on what he terms "the great looming story of the twenty-first century, the unraveling of the global environment." He has written on power blackouts, the coming hydrogen age, food irradiation, SUVs, and groundwater speculation. In 2000, he authored a Harper's cover story on international water scarcity entitled "Running Dry: What Happens When the World No Longer Has Enough Freshwater?" It was selected for inclusion in The Best American Science Writing 2001. His new book, Leslie speaks on the deepening global water shortage - on its complexity, its seriousness, and its implications for the future. For more information about Jacques Leslie and his speaking topics, experience, fees and availability, please call our toll-free number,, or send us an email message .
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As
a war correspondent in Saigon for the Los Angeles Times, Jacques
Leslie was the first American journalist to enter and return from
Viet Cong territory in South Vietnam. For his reporting, he earned
expulsion from South Vietnam. For this same reporting, he earned a
Pulitzer Prize nomination and won two national journalism awards.
He went on to cover the collapse of the Lon Nol government (leaving
Phnom Penh in an evacuation helicopter) and the Pathet Lao's toppling
of the coalition government in Laos. He is the author of 
. He has written
for Harper's, The Atlantic, The New York Times Magazine, Newsweek,
The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Boston Globe, Mother
Jones, Wired, Salon, Whole Earth Review, and many other magazines
and newspapers.
, won the 2002 J. Anthony
Lukas Work-in-Progress Award. It depicts three people deeply involved
with dams: Medha Patkar, the world's leading antidam activist, who
has courted death repeatedly to protest the Sardar Sarovar Dam in
western India; Thayer Scudder, an anthropologist at the California
Institute of Technology and the world's foremost authority on dam
resettlement; and Don Blackmore, who led a campaign to persuade farmers
and politicians to return water to the River Murray in Australia to
reverse its headlong decline. 
