Earthseed: Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents

by Octavia E. Butler

Haha - like Lake Mead and Salt Lake and the Aral Sea - "one of the planet's worst environmental disasters,” former United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/earthnews/7554679/Aral-Sea-one-of-the-planets-worst-environmental-disasters.html