Camels also have evolved a nose that reduces the amount of moisture lost while breathing on chilly desert nights. For now, they are safe with just enough to get by, but when suspicious strangers begin turning up and the water is turned off, Aida and her family are forced to make a terrible decision.

Rachelle Atalla | Hachette UK Rachelle Atalla | Hachette UK

Kookaburra, Kangaroo and Koala were just about to untie Snake when they heard a great rumbling sound.Ruling out other diseases is the first thing to do because of the extensive testing needed to diagnose liver disease in dogs. The plot premise itself was very interesting and actually seemed like something that could become reality. Some of the topics were difficult to read, and I don't usually struggle with them but the way they were written and how they would come up out of nowhere made them uncomfortable for me.

Water: thirsty animals, thirsty crops | Heinrich Böll Water: thirsty animals, thirsty crops | Heinrich Böll

Disliking characters is normally not a good reason to dislike a book, but if I dislike them because they’re dumb then yeah, valid. So that we understand why they let strangers stay, why they don't ask some of the questions that maybe need asking. Faster and faster Snake twirled, twisted and turned - until she danced so fast that she twisted herself into a great, big knot. Once again, testing at the vet's office is needed to define the disease and formulate a treatment plan.On her great-uncle Bobbys' farm, our narrator Aida, 21, is resigned to her life prospects dwindling. It's a shame that this book didn't live up to my expectations because it really does have a lot of potential. Some of the stuff that happened seemed scarily close to reality and I can easily see the events of the book happening if the world ends up in a similar situation. The date is never specified, although references to things like Twitter and an absence of any new technology suggest it's the here and now.

Thirsty Animals | Rachelle Atalla | 9781529342154 | NetGalley Thirsty Animals | Rachelle Atalla | 9781529342154 | NetGalley

This is a great author and it’s frustrating being taken out of her exciting and tense writing to try and make sense of what you’re reading. This means there are scenes were she not only injects herself bnt also is woried about the lack of insulin around. In all, 92 percent of the global water footprint goes towards agriculture, 29 percent of which is used in animal production.

I was utterly captivated by the story, especially Atalla's characters who are richly drawn and incredibly relatable. But for the briefest of moments, it felt as if all social constructs could collapse and that we were on the brink of something new. lol) in Scotland, with the rest of the UK and seemingly the rest of the world having collapsed as water availability dwindled. The best cli-fi book I’ve read is still It Doesn't Have To Be This Way, so if you want to be hopeless and depressed reading about climate change, read that one instead.

Thirsty Animals by Rachelle Atalla | Goodreads

Through her, the author takes us on an emotional journey, full of despair, but, fundamentally, not bereft of hope. However, despite this I get pulled deeper and deeper into the storytelling as I really begin to care about Aida and her family. With the effects of climate change already being seen, from climate displacement to water being treated as a commodity for profit, supply issues are only expected to worsen, and no one is immune from the challenges we face. There are references to serious droughts worldwide, in particular Egypt where the matriarch comes from (a nod to Atalla's own Egyptian background), but the main focus is on social and economic breakdown in the UK driven by the rains failing. Thirsty Animals is set in Scotland when extreme drought has caused people to flee England to Scotland to try to find water.It's a disease caused by high blood sugar and is commonly associated with excessive thirst in dogs and cats ( 9, 10).