Water Our Thirsty World
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Water Our Thirsty World
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Author : Barbara Kingsolver
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010
Water Our Thirsty World written by Barbara Kingsolver and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with categories.
National Geographic
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language : en
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Release Date : 2010
National Geographic written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with categories.
Water
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language : en
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Release Date : 2010
Water written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with categories.
Whose Water Is It
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Author : Bernadette McDonald
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003
Whose Water Is It written by Bernadette McDonald and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Nature categories.
"In this book, 14 prominent environmental writers address every aspect of the looming crisis. They explore the paradox that, on a blue planet like ours, little of that resource is actually available for use, and offer alarming and persuasive evidence that we are using what we have much faster than it can be replenished - a problem that will only grow worse as the global population grows and the rate of climate change and airborne pollution quickens. They show the dire consequences of current trends, from desertification to epidemic disease to increasingly bitter battles over who "owns" water and how to apportion our dwindling supply."--BOOK JACKET.
Not A Drop To Drink
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Author : Michael Burgan
language : en
Publisher: National Geographic Children's Books
Release Date : 2008
Not A Drop To Drink written by Michael Burgan and has been published by National Geographic Children's Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Climatic changes categories.
Water is one of Earth's hot environmental topics. The scarcity of clean drinking water will have dramatic consequences for humanity in the 21st century: water disputes could spark regional conflict, while increased desertification and drought could affect world food supplies and the future of farming. Not a Drop to Drink conveys a clear message to young readers about this precious commodity and our urgent need to conserve it. National Geographic supports K-12 educators with ELA Common Core Resources. Visit www.natgeoed.org/commoncore for more information.
New Water For A Thirsty World Foreword By Aldous Huxley
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Author : Michael H. Salzman
language : en
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New Water For A Thirsty World Foreword By Aldous Huxley written by Michael H. Salzman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with Water-supply categories.
Water In Plain Sight
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Author : Judith Schwartz
language : en
Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing
Release Date : 2019
Water In Plain Sight written by Judith Schwartz and has been published by Chelsea Green Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with Nature categories.
"In a refreshing perspective on water that transcends zero-sum thinking, the author of the groundbreaking Cows Save the Planet, sharing stories from around the globe, offers real-world solutions to today's water crisis, "--NoveList.
The Price Of Thirst
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Author : Karen Piper
language : en
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Release Date : 2014-10-01
The Price Of Thirst written by Karen Piper and has been published by U of Minnesota Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-01 with Social Science categories.
“There's Money in Thirst,” reads a headline in the New York Times. The CEO of Nestlé, purveyor of bottled water, heartily agrees. It is important to give water a market value, he says in a promotional video, so “we're all aware that it has a price.” But for those who have no access to clean water, a fifth of the world's population, the price is thirst. This is the frightening landscape that Karen Piper conducts us through in The Price of Thirst—one where thirst is political, drought is a business opportunity, and more and more of our most necessary natural resource is controlled by multinational corporations. In visits to the hot spots of water scarcity and the hotshots in water finance, Piper shows us what happens when global businesses with mafia-like powers buy up the water supply and turn off the taps of people who cannot pay: border disputes between Iraq and Turkey, a “revolution of the thirsty” in Egypt, street fights in Greece, an apartheid of water rights in South Africa. The Price of Thirst takes us to Chile, the first nation to privatize 100 percent of its water supplies, creating a crushing monopoly instead of a thriving free market in water; to New Delhi, where the sacred waters of the Ganges are being diverted to a private water treatment plant, fomenting unrest; and to Iraq, where the U.S.-mandated privatization of water resources destroyed by our military is further destabilizing the volatile region. And in our own backyard, where these same corporations are quietly buying up water supplies, Piper reveals how “water banking” is drying up California farms in favor of urban sprawl and private towns. The product of seven years of investigation across six continents and a dozen countries, and scores of interviews with CEOs, activists, environmentalists, and climate change specialists, The Price of Thirst paints a harrowing picture of a world out of balance, with the distance between the haves and have-nots of water inexorably widening and the coming crisis moving ever closer.
Watery Planet
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Author : Anna Claybourne
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2024-06-13
Watery Planet written by Anna Claybourne and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-06-13 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Watery Planet offers young readers a clear, insightful look at Earth's ongoing water challenges. Water makes our life on Earth possible. We need water not just to drink and keep clean, but also for agriculture, industry, transport and much, much more. But despite having an enormous amount of water on Earth, only 1 per cent of it is available for us to use and it's at increasing risk. Watery Planet looks at the reasons behind our looming water crisis - from uneven distribution to water wastage, pollution and climate change. It explores how floods, droughts and rising sea levels are becoming a stark reality as the world warms and describes how we are adapting to these challenges. It also looks at some positive, practical solutions to our water problems and explains how we can all do our part to help save Earth's most precious resource. Contents: A WHOLE WORLD OF WATER WE ALL NEED WATER! HOW WE GET WATER IS THERE ENOUGH WATER? WATER AND HEALTH CASE STUDY: COLLECTING WATER IN ETHIOPIA WATER POLLUTION WATER AND GLOBAL WARMING FLOODS AND DROUGHTS CASE STUDY: PAKISTAN FLOODS RISING SEA LEVELS WATER AND NATURE WATER AND WILDLIFE CASE STUDY: THIRSTY AVOCADOS DOING THINGS DIFFERENTLY WATER FOR THE WORLD CASE STUDY: THE ARAL SEA WATERY HOMES WHAT CAN YOU DO? THE FUTURE OF WATER GLOSSARY FURTHER READING INDEX Titles in this series: Plastic Planet Hot Planet Recycled Planet Sustainable Planet Extinction Planet Peaceful Planet? Unequal Planet
The Big Thirst
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Author : Charles Fishman
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2011-04-12
The Big Thirst written by Charles Fishman and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-04-12 with Nature categories.
Praised as “an entertaining and torrential flow of a book” by Nature magazine, The Big Thirstis a startling examination of the passing of the golden age of water and the shocking facts about how water scarcity will soon be a major factor in our lives. The water coming out of your kitchen tap is four billion years old and might well have been sipped by a Tyrannosaurus rex. Rather than only three states of water—liquid, ice, and vapor—there is a fourth, “molecular water,” fused into rock 400 miles deep in the Earth, and that’s where most of the planet’s water is found. Unlike most precious resources, water cannot be used up; it can always be made clean enough again to drink—indeed, water can be made so clean that it’s toxic. Water is the most vital substance in our lives but also more amazing and mysterious than we appreciate. As Charles Fishman brings vibrantly to life in this surprising and mind-changing narrative, water runs our world in a host of awe-inspiring ways, yet we take it completely for granted. But the era of easy water is over. Bringing readers on a lively and fascinating journey—from the wet moons of Saturn to the water-obsessed hotels of Las Vegas, where dolphins swim in the desert, and from a rice farm in the parched Australian outback to a high-tech IBM plant that makes an exotic breed of pure water found nowhere in nature—Fishman vividly shows that we’ve already left behind a century-long golden age when water was thoughtlessly abundant, free, and safe and entered a new era of high-stakes water. In 2008, Atlanta came within ninety days of running entirely out of clean water. California is in a desperate battle to hold off a water catastrophe. And in the last five years Australia nearly ran out of water—and had to scramble to reinvent the country’s entire water system. But as dramatic as the challenges are, the deeper truth Fishman reveals is that there is no good reason for us to be overtaken by a global water crisis. We have more than enough water. We just don’t think about it, or use it, smartly. The Big Thirst brilliantly explores our strange and complex relationship to water. We delight in watching waves roll in from the ocean; we take great comfort from sliding into a hot bath; and we will pay a thousand times the price of tap water to drink our preferred brand of the bottled version. We love water—but at the moment, we don’t appreciate it or respect it. Just as we’ve begun to reimagine our relationship to food, a change that is driving the growth of the organic and local food movements, we must also rethink how we approach and use water. The good news is that we can. As Fishman shows, a host of advances are under way, from the simplicity of harvesting rainwater to the brilliant innovations devised by companies such as IBM, GE, and Royal Caribbean that are making impressive breakthroughs in water productivity. Knowing what to do is not the problem. Ultimately, the hardest part is changing our water consciousness. As Charles Fishman writes, “Many civilizations have been crippled or destroyed by an inability to understand water or manage it. We have a huge advantage over the generations of people who have come before us, because we can understand water and we can use it smartly.” The Big Thirst will forever change the way we think about water, about our essential relationship to it, and about the creativity we can bring to ensuring that we’ll always have plenty of it.