16th One Book, One Bakersfield, One Kern Read
September – October, 2016
The One Book Project was led by the Kern County Library and California State University, Bakersfield’s First Year Experience Program. Several juvenile companion titles were offered, including One Well: The Story of Water by Rochelle Strass, All the Water in the World by George Ella Lyon, and A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park. Great community discussion came out of the programming created for this read to explore our strange, complex relationship with water and how we take it for granted. At the time, California was in a desperate battle to hold off a water catastrophe during the drought.
Further Reading Resources, Pictures from the Read, & More!
- The Big Thirst Discussion Questions & Reading Group Guide
- The One Book Project on First Look with Scott Cox, April 2016
- “‘Early Warning Signal’: Lake Mead Hits Historic Low,” Las Vegas Sun
- “What’s Wrong With Our Food System,” TEDx Event with Birke Baehr
- “‘It Looked Really Dirty’ – Now, Arvin Kids Drink Clean Water in Schools,” Valley Public Radio
- Mapping Ocean Wealth, Infographic from The Nature Conservancy
- “Ethiopian Farmers Made a Desert Bloom Again,” Grist
- U.S. Selected Significant Climate Anomalies and Events, Infographic from State of the Climate Reports
- Interview with Matt Damon about the Water Crisis, 2010
- “Americans Guzzling More Bottled Water Than Ever,” Fast Company
- “Scientists Discover the Oldest, Largest Body of Water in Existence – In Space,” Fast Company
- “The U.S. Could Cut Water Use by 33% Using Existing Technology,” Fast Company
- “The White House Doesn’t Want Audacious Water Goals, It Wants Hundreds of Water Projects,” Fast Company
- “The White House Wants to Spend $300 Million on a Water Revolution,” Fast Company
- “The Big Thirst: Why Climate Change Might Cut Your Shower Short,” Fast Company
- “PG&E, Division of Boating and Waterways Warn of Higher, Colder Flows,” Currents
- “This Computer Will Grow Your Food in the Future,” TED Conference Talk with Caleb Harper
- Excerpt: The Big Thirst, by Katharine Crnko on Marketplace
- Cal Water Tutorial: How to Check for Household Leaks, Video
- “10 Things That Will Change How You Think About Water,” Marketplace
- “The Big Thirst: The Secret Revolution in U.S. Water Use,” Fast Company
- “What’s Wrong With What We Eat,” TED Conference Talk with Mark Bittman
- “The Drought Reveals Hidden History at the Bottom of Lake Casitas,” KCRW
- Bamboo Structure than can collect up to 100 liters of water per day, Video
- “The Big Thirst: One Water Statistic We Ought to Retire,” Fast Company
- “The Big Thirst: Your Saliva Was Born in the Milky Way,” Fast Company
- “Why GE, Coca-Cola, and IBM are Getting Into the Water Business,” Fast Company
- Food Waste in America (Social Experiment), Video
- “County Supervisors Vote to Form Groundwater Agency,” The Bakersfield Californian
- “Water World,” Fast Company
- “Message in a Bottle,” Fast Company
- “EPA, NV DEP Require Nevada Department of Transportation to Protect Local Waters,” United States Environmental Protection Agency
- “Israel Proves the Desalination Era is Here,” Scientific American
- “Do We Drink Dinosaur Urine?,” Washington CityPaper
- “Measuring Californians’ Daily Water Footprint,” KQED Science
- “Bottled Water: Answering a Math Question,” Fast Company
- “San Luis Reservoir at Lowest Level in 25 Years,” abc30 Action News
- “Drought Costs California Farms $600 Million, but Impact Eases,” The Sacramento Bee
- “Lois Henry: The Backstory of a Water Scare You Never Knew About,” The Bakersfield Californian
- “The Dangerously Clean Water Used to Make Your iPhone,” Fast Company
- “How We Can Make Crops Survive Without Water,” TED Conference Talk with Jill Farrant
- “Davis-Woodland Water Supply Project Receives 2016 National Design-Build Project Award,” WaterWorld
- “A Lush English Garden in Studio City is Converted to a Water Savvy Landscape,” Los Angeles Times
- “One Big Problem – ‘Save the Waves,‘” Fast Company
- “Solar-Powered Pipe Desalinates 1.5 Billion Gallons of Drinking Water a Year for California,” Minds
- “Brown Signs Bill Allowing Utilities to Fine Water Wasters,” SCVNews.com
- “One Book, One Bakersfield, One Kern Project Chooses Novel ‘The Big Thirst,‘” 23abc News
- The Mayor of Bakersfield, Proclamation, September – October, 2016 as One Book, One Bakersfield, One Kern Community Read Months, Photo
- Kern County Board of Supervisors Officially Proclaimed “The Big Thirst” as the 2016 Read for One Book, One Bakersfield, One Kern, Photos
- Paint Night at the Southwest Branch Library, Photo
- “One Book, One Bakersfield, One Kern Causes Community to Rethink Water Scarcity,” The Bakersfield Californian
- PSA: KGET Announces Author Read and One Book Selection, Video
- “Will California See a Wet Winter? Forecasters Call It a ‘Crapshoot,‘” The Sacramento Bee
- Quench: The Flow of Creativity, Student Art Exhibit, Photo & more Photos
- “Announcing the 2016 Read: The Big Thirst,” KGET
- “Charles Fishman: California Still Needs New Thinking About Water,” Valley Public Radio
- Panel Discussion: The Ethics of Water Distribution in the Southern San Joaquin Valley at CSUB, Photos
- Charles Fishman, author of the book, & Emerson Case, CSUB on First Look with Scott Cox
- Author Pre-Event at the Walter Stiern Library, Photos
- An Evening with the Author at CSUB, Photos
Community Partners for the 16th One Book Project
