Memory of Water

The Memory of Water by Emmi Itaranta
266 Pages

 Noria Kaitio is becoming a tea master like her father.  This great responsibility is coupled with the knowledge of a secret spring of water, in an age where clean water is in great demand.  A couple of centuries in the future, global warming has led to an Earth where the gluttony of the 20th and 21st centuries is a thing of the past and clean water is hard to come by.  The power state of New Qian controls the area where Noria lives and to hide the spring is to bring the wrath of the military down on Noria who has discovered a secret that could undermine their control.

While at times heavy handed with imagery the book still is enjoyable and Itaranta is an interesting voice.