• Ambish Malik

This paper attempts to develop the critique of Paolo Bacigalupi’s 2015 novel The Water Knife as the warning for a dry future. It depicts the worst case scenario of near future; a postmodern society, chaos, a world which moves from disaster to horror. Paolo Bacigalupi’s The Water Knife is a noir-filled, apocalyptic vision of a dreadful near future. A future where there is a dystopian Dust Bowl, a similar dust storm and drought as Oklahoma had in 1930s and people are dying due to scarcity of water. Bacigalupi already seems to have lived in the future, presenting the very postmodern world where water is more precious than gold. The Water Knife is set in near-future United States, where the south-western states compete with each other for access to a reliable water supply during a period of prolonged and disastrous drought. Water is the only concern in The Water Knife, where the people are dying and fighting for water.

Apocalypse, Drought, Dystopia, Water-war.

"The Dry Future in The Water Knife", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 12, page no.224-228, December-2018, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1812128.pdf

"The Dry Future in The Water Knife", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 12, page no. pp224-228, December-2018, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1812128.pdf