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Author
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Water Always Wins transports us around the world and back through time, exposing us to better ways to live with water. Gies introduces us to water experts the world over as they search for clues to water's past and present, using close observation, historical research, ancient animal and human wisdom, and cutting-edge science to effect change. We become more aware of the ways in which modern civilizations speed water away, erasing its slow phases...
Author
Publisher
Free Press
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
As Charles Fishman brings vibrantly to life in this delightful narrative, water runs the world in a host of awe-inspiring ways. Here, he explains how a water scarcity crisis can affect the way we think about, use, and understand water.
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/ St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"With hardly a day without a water-crisis story somewhere, Let There Be Water offers prescriptions on how countries, cities, and businesses can avoid the worst of it. With sixty percent of the country in a desert and despite a rapidly growing population, Israel has been jumping ahead of the water-innovation curve for decades. Israel's national unity and economic vitality are, in part, the result of a culture and consciousness that understands the...
Series
Report volume no. 140
Publisher
South Carolina Water Resources Commission
Pub. Date
[1983]
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"A vivid, searching journey into California's complicated relationship to its water, from the Gold Rush to today : an epic story of the struggle to overcome the constraints of nature. Mark Arax is from a family of Central Valley farmers, a writer with deep ties to the land, who has watched as the battles over water have intensified even as the state lurches from drought to flood and back again. In The Dreamt Land he travels the state to explore the...
Author
Series
Publisher
ABC-CLIO, LLC
Pub. Date
c2016
Language
English
Description
"How is water scarcity becoming a serious problem worldwide--including in the United States? This book provides a broad overview of water, sanitation, and hygiene problems faced by both developing and developed nations around the globe and suggests how these problems can be solved by imaginative and innovative thinking. Human society depends on sufficient clean water. In many parts of the world, however, this most basic commodity is in very short...
10) Palmetto waters
Publisher
South Carolina Water Resources Commission
Pub. Date
197u-1994
Language
English
Author
Publisher
The New Press
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
Water activist and author Barlow, founder of the Blue Planet Project, lays out some terrifying unsafe-water statistics as she addresses the need for the international community to move toward a water-secure and water-just world.
Author
Series
Administrative report volume no.13
Publisher
The Commission
Pub. Date
1984
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Island Press
Pub. Date
c2017
Language
English
Description
"Sandra Postel takes readers around the world to explore water projects that work with, rather than against, nature's rhythms. In New Mexico, forest rehabilitation is safeguarding drinking water; along the Mississippi River, farmers are planting cover crops to reduce polluted runoff; and in China, "sponge cities" are capturing rainwater to curb urban flooding. Efforts like these will be essential as climate change disrupts both weather patterns and...
Author
Publisher
Distributed by W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
Maude Barlow and Tony Clarke, two of the most active opponents to the privatization of water show how, contrary to received wisdom, water mainly flows uphill to the wealthy. Our most basic resource may one day be limited: Our consumption doubles every twenty years-twice the rate of population increase. At the same time, increasingly transnational corporations are plotting to control the world's dwindling water supply. In England and France, where...
Author
Series
Report volume no. 146
Publisher
South Carolina Water Resources Commission
Pub. Date
1984
Language
English
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