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Thirsty City

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Author : Skye Borden
language : en
Publisher: SUNY Press
Release Date : 2014-07-29

Thirsty City written by Skye Borden and has been published by SUNY Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-29 with Political Science categories.

Explores the evolution of Atlanta’s water system and charts the poor urban planning decisions that created the city’s current water shortage. Atlanta is running out of water and is in the midst of a water crisis. Its crumbling infrastructure spews toxic waste and raw sewage into neighboring streams. A tri-state water war between Alabama, Florida, and Georgia has been raging since 1990, with Atlanta caught in the middle; however, the city’s problems have been more than a century in the making. In Thirsty City, Skye Borden tells the complete story of how Atlanta’s water ran dry. Using detailed historical research, legal analysis, and personal accounts, she explores the evolution of Atlanta’s water system as well as charts the poor urban planning decisions that led to the city’s current woes. She also uncovers the loopholes in local, state, and federal environmental laws that have enabled urban planners to shirk responsibility for ongoing water quantity and quality problems. From the city’s unfortunate location to its present-day debacle, Thirsty City is a fascinating and highly readable account that reveals how Atlanta’s quest for water is riddled with shortsighted decisions, unchecked greed, political corruption, and racial animus. “Instead of a date-filled, statistically laden work of history and law, Borden weaves a compelling story full of interesting asides and biographical anecdotes. I found the history fascinating. It represents a real contribution to the literature.” — William L. Andreen, University of Alabama School of Law

Thirsty City

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Author : Skye Borden
language : en
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Release Date : 2014-07-29

Thirsty City written by Skye Borden and has been published by State University of New York Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-29 with Political Science categories.

Atlanta is running out of water and is in the midst of a water crisis. Its crumbling infrastructure spews toxic waste and raw sewage into neighboring streams. A tri-state water war between Alabama, Florida, and Georgia has been raging since 1990, with Atlanta caught in the middle; however, the city's problems have been more than a century in the making. In Thirsty City, Skye Borden tells the complete story of how Atlanta's water ran dry. Using detailed historical research, legal analysis, and personal accounts, she explores the evolution of Atlanta's water system as well as charts the poor urban planning decisions that led to the city's current woes. She also uncovers the loopholes in local, state, and federal environmental laws that have enabled urban planners to shirk responsibility for ongoing water quantity and quality problems. From the city's unfortunate location to its present-day debacle, Thirsty City is a fascinating and highly readable account that reveals how Atlanta's quest for water is riddled with shortsighted decisions, unchecked greed, political corruption, and racial animus.

Thirsty Cities

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Author : Selina Ho
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2019-01-10

Thirsty Cities written by Selina Ho and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-01-10 with History categories.

Provides the answer to the enduring puzzle why India lags behind China in offering public goods to its people.

A Tale Of Three Thirsty Cities

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Author : Jaime-Chaim Shulman
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2017-11-01

A Tale Of Three Thirsty Cities written by Jaime-Chaim Shulman and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-01 with Science categories.

In A Tale of Three Thirsty Cities, Jaime-Chaim Shulman offers an analysis of three engineering projects of urban water supply systems carried out between 1560s – 1610s. Mainly external conditions, and not technology, affected the improvement achieved in the inhabitants’ wellbeing.

Thirsty Cities

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Author : Danilo J. Anton
language : en
Publisher: IDRC
Release Date : 1993

Thirsty Cities written by Danilo J. Anton and has been published by IDRC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Business & Economics categories.

Many cities in Latin America and the Caribbean are experiencing a water crisis as sources become exhausted or degraded. Urbanization, deteriorating infrastructures with a lack of funds for repairs, and inadequate polices are conspiring to cause water shortages. People are becoming concentrated in megacities, such as Mexico City with a population of almost 23 million, that have outgrown their water-supply systems. Urban areas are increasingly incapable of supplying water and sewer systems for their populations. By the year 2020, more than 500 million inhabitants of Latin America (two-thirds of.

Thirsty City

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Author : Phillip Quinn Morris
language : en
Publisher: Random House (NY)
Release Date : 1990

Thirsty City written by Phillip Quinn Morris and has been published by Random House (NY) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Fiction categories.

Bennie J. Reynolds is the richest man in Sumpter County, Alabama, due to a perfect blend of good moonshine and unfailing business sense. Now gone legitimate--mostly--he works to create a fairy-tale existence for his family. His one regret is not having had ten children; yet, his chief worry is his children, Winn and Wright, and niece Hanna, who seem hell-bent on being teenagers. It is the summer of 1970, and they romp through the days as if each might be the last: Wright has a nagging fear of going off to college, Hanna is dealing with pregnancy and a death fixation, and Winn is seeking to make some sense of four years of college-hopping. Half a generation removed from a sharecropper's cabin, the Reynolds are a rich blend of Southern gentility and backwoods red neck--From Library Journal.

City Economics

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Author : Brendan O'Flaherty
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2005-10-30

City Economics written by Brendan O'Flaherty and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-10-30 with Business & Economics categories.

This introductory but innovative textbook on the economics of cities is aimed at students of urban and regional policy as well as of undergraduate economics. It deals with standard topics, including automobiles, mass transit, pollution, housing, and education but it also discusses non-standard topics such as segregation, water supply, sewers, garbage, fire prevention, housing codes, homelessness, crime, illicit drugs, and economic development. Its methods of analysis are primarily verbal, geometric, and arithmetic. The author achieves coherence by showing how the analysis of various topics reinforces one another. Thus, buses can tell us something about schools and optimal tolls about land prices. Brendan O'Flaherty looks at almost everything through the lens of Pareto optimality and potential Pareto optimality--how policies affect people and their well-being, not abstract entities such as cities or the economy or growth or the environment. Such traditionalism leads to radical questions, however: Should cities have police and fire departments? Should tax preferences for home ownership be repealed? Should public schools charge for their services? O'Flaherty also gives serious consideration to such heterodox policies as pay-at-the-pump auto insurance, curb rights for buses, land taxes, marginal cost water pricing, and sidewalk zoning.

Thirsty Cities And Dirty Water

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Author : Isabella Donnelly
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2017-01-30

Thirsty Cities And Dirty Water written by Isabella Donnelly and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-01-30 with categories.

." . . the good feeling was as universal and exuberant as though the Lake Tunnel had fl ooded the city with champagne and oysters, instead of pure water without little fi sh."

Mercy In The City

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Author : Kerry Weber
language : en
Publisher: Loyola Press
Release Date : 2014-01-08

Mercy In The City written by Kerry Weber and has been published by Loyola Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-01-08 with Religion categories.

When Jesus asked us to feed the hungry, give drink to the thirsty, and visit the imprisoned, he didn’t mean it literally, right? Kerry Weber, a modern, young, single woman in New York City sets out to see if she can practice the Corporal Works of Mercy in an authentic, personal, meaningful manner while maintaining a full, robust, regular life. Weber, a lay Catholic, explores the Works of Mercy in the real world, with a gut-level honesty and transparency that people of urban, country, and suburban locales alike can relate to. Mercy in the City is for anyone who is struggling to live in a meaningful, merciful way amid the pressures of “real life.” For those who feel they are already overscheduled and too busy, for those who assume that they are not “religious enough” to practice the Works of Mercy, for those who worry that they are alone in their efforts to live an authentic life, Mercy in the City proves that by living as people for others, we learn to connect as people of faith.

Breeders Live Stock Journal

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1883

Breeders Live Stock Journal written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1883 with Livestock categories.