Published: September 14th, 2021,
Last updated: May 28th, 2025
From Giulio Boccaletti
Giulio Boccaletti is an honorary research associate at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford, and author of Water: A Biography.
Modern societies were built on the promise of water security. Flood disasters and the increasingly evident failure of our institutions pose a direct threat to the acceptance of the state, warns Giulio Boccaletti of Oxford University.
