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Author | : Brigitte Weninger |
Publisher | : NorthSouth (NY) |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Children's stories |
ISBN | : 9780735818699 |
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A young girl celebrates our most precious natural resource, describes the sources of water and its importance to all living things, and expresses her gratitude for this gift of nature. Reprint.
Author | : AIMS Education Foundation |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 267 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Mathematics |
ISBN | : 9781605190105 |
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Author | : Obi Kaufmann |
Publisher | : Heyday Books |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9781597144698 |
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Obi Kaufmann, author of the best-selling California Field Atlas, turns his artful yet analytical attention to the Golden State's single most complex and controversial resource: water. In this new book, full-color maps unravel the braided knot of California's water infrastructure and ecosystems, exposing a history of unlimited growth in spite of finite natural resources--a history that has led to its current precarious circumstances. Yet this built world depends upon the biosphere, and in The State of Water Kaufmann argues that environmental conservation and restoration efforts are necessary not only for ethical reasons but also as a matter of human survival. Offering nine perspectives to illustrate the most pressing challenges facing California's water infrastructure, from dams to species revitalization, Kaufmann reveals pragmatic yet inspiring solutions to how water in the West can continue to support agriculture, municipalities, and the environment. Interspersed throughout with trail paintings of animals that might yet survive under a caring and careful water ethic, Kaufmann shows how California can usher in a new era of responsible water conservation, and--perhaps most importantly--how we may do so together.
Author | : Marq De Villiers |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9780618127443 |
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This book provides an eye-opening account of how we are using, misusing and abusing our planet's most vital resource.
Author | : Arthur J. Wiebe |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Interdisciplinary approach in education |
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Author | : David L. Feldman |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 2017-02-27 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1509504656 |
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As the world faces another water crisis, it is easy to understand why this precious and highly-disputed resource could determine the fate of entire nations. In reality, however, water conflicts rarely result in violence and more often lead to collaborative governance, however precarious. In this comprehensive and accessible text, David Feldman introduces readers to the key issues, debates, and challenges in water politics today. Its ten chapters explore the processes that determine how this unique resource captures our attention, the sources of power that determine how we allocate, use, and protect it, and the purposes that direct decisions over its cost, availability, and access. Drawing on contemporary water controversies from every continent from Flint, Michigan to Mumbai, Sao Paulo, and Beijing the book argues that cooperation and more equitable water management are imperative if the global community is to adequately address water challenges and their associated risks, particularly in the developing world. While alternatives for enhancing water supply, including waste-water re-use, desalination, and conservation abound, without inclusive means of addressing citizens' concerns, their adoption faces severe hurdles that can impede cooperation and generate additional conflicts.
Author | : Roy A. Gallant |
Publisher | : Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC |
Total Pages | : 56 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780761410409 |
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Explains why water, although common, has characteristics which make it an unusual substance.
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Total Pages | : 9 |
Release | : 1983 |
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Author | : Martin V. Melosi |
Publisher | : University of Pittsburgh Pre |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2011-04-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0822977761 |
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As an essential resource, water has been the object of warfare, political wrangling, and individual and corporate abuse. It has also become an object of commodification, with multinational corporations vying for water supply contracts in many countries. In Precious Commodity, Martin V. Melosi examines water resources in the United States and addresses whether access to water is an inalienable right of citizens, and if government is responsible for its distribution as a public good. Melosi provides historical background on the construction, administration, and adaptability of water supply and wastewater systems in urban America. He cites budgetary constraints and the deterioration of existing water infrastructures as factors leading many municipalities to seriously consider the privatization of their water supply. Melosi also views the role of government in the management of, development of, and legal jurisdiction over America's rivers and waterways for hydroelectric power, flood control, irrigation, and transportation access. Looking to the future, he compares the costs and benefits of public versus private water supply, examining the global movement toward privatization.
Author | : Rhett B. Larson |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 301 |
Release | : 2020-04-16 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 0190948035 |
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Scientists have long been searching for a unified field theory--one answer to all of the questions about the physical universe. In this book, Rhett Larson takes a similar approach to social policy questions. What if we could find a unified social policy theory--the answer to every question from how to prevent war to how to promote gender equality? Most of our most serious global challenges are complex, multi-faceted "wicked problems." But perhaps the first step in solving wicked problems as seemingly distinct as racism and disease epidemics is the same: reform our laws, policies, and priorities to achieve global water security. Global water security means reasonable access for all people to water of acceptable quantity and quality with acceptable costs and risks. Just as the essential element to all life is water, so water is the essential element to solving life's challenges. Virtually every major social challenge--including gender inequality, racial discrimination, terrorism, space exploration, global disease epidemics, mass migrations, and climate change--has a significant and underappreciated water component. Each chapter of this book takes up one of these wicked problems, illustrates the role water plays in that problem, and proposes reforms to address the water aspect of that problem, with the aim of achieving global water security. The goal of this this book is to convince the reader that the answer, or at least one part of the answer, to our most serious problems is the oft-repeated catchphrase: "Just add water."