| Description |
viii, 195 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm. |
| Series |
Reference shelf ; v. 80, no. 2 |
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Reference shelf ; v. 80, no. 2.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
The global water supply : an overview. Blue planet blues / Eleanor J. Sterling ; PopulationWatch : "more crop per drop" / Tushaar Shah ; Water scarcity : the food factor / David Molden, Charlotte De Fraiture, and Frank Rijsberman ; Not a drop to drink / Katharine Mieszkowski ; Where's the water? / Andrea Neal ; Water woes / Marianne Lavelle ; Ask Natural Life : bottled water or tap water? / Wendy Priesnitz -- Water wars. The rise of big water / Charles C. Mann ; Water for profit / Jon R. Luoma ; The new water wars / Bill Lambrecht ; Water war / Current Events ; Sharing the river out of Eden / Sandra L. Postel -- Polluted waters. Sold down the river / Eleanor J. Sterling and Merry D. Camhi ; Troubled waters / Mary Carmichael, Sarah Schafer, and Sudip Mazumdar ; A prayer for the Ganges / Joshua Hammer ; Breathless in Brooklyn / Frank Koughan ; Dangerous waters / Sharon P. Nappier, Robert S. Lawrence, and Kellogg J. Schwab ; Water / New Internationalist -- Climate change and the water supply. A European Sahara? / Eric Pape ; The big dry / The Economist ; Tapped out? : melting snow may equal less water / Laura Snider ; Climate change could mean more massive downpours / Lisa Stiffler and Tom Paulson -- Water management. How to fix our dam problems / James G. Workman ; Scaling up drinking water services / Junaid K. Ahmad, David Savage, and Vivek Srivastava ; From California sewage, drinking water / Randal C. Archibold ; Clean and green / Donald Baker, Les Lampe, and Laura Adams. |
| Subject |
Water-supply.
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Water -- Pollution.
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Global warming.
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Water rights.
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| Added Author |
Stein, Richard Joseph.
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| ISBN |
9780824210793 alkaline paper |
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0824210794 alkaline paper |
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