A searing, candid and personal account from inside the battle to save the Great Barrier Reef from the recent CEO of Australia's lading coral research institute (who also happens to be a widely published thriller writer).

In the ongoing climate wars, the Great Barrier Reef has become a symbol of everything that
we have to lose from global warming. For years, reports of the world-famous coral being
irreversibly bleached have fuelled an ideological battle between those fighting to stop the
damage and those who insist the danger is overblown.
Paul Hardisty found himself in the middle of this fight during his six years as CEO of the
Australian Institute of Marine Science. In this fascinating, candid and urgent book, he dives into
the history of the reef and cuts through the rhetoric to chart the circumstances and acceleration
of its decline, as well as the determined efforts to save it.
In Hot Water is a crucial look inside the battle to save one of Australia's greatest treasures,
describing what must be done to preserve it, and what is at risk if we fail to do so