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Author Postel, Sandra, author.

Title Replenish : the virtuous cycle of water and prosperity / Sandra Postel.

Publication Info. Washington, DC : Island Press, [2017]
©2017

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Location Call No. Status
 Bloomfield, Prosser Library - Adult Department  333.91 POS    Storage
 East Hartford, Raymond Library - Adult Department  333.91 POSTEL    Check Shelf
 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Nonfiction  333.91 POSTEL    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  333.91 POSTEL    Check Shelf
 South Windsor Public Library - Non Fiction  333.91 POSTEL    Check Shelf
 Southington Library - Adult  333.91 POS    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  333.91 POSTEL    Check Shelf
Description ix, 323 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-312) and index.
Contents Water Everywhere and Nowhere -- Back to Life -- Put Watersheds to Work -- Make Room for Floods -- Bank It for a Dry Day -- Fill the Earth -- Conserve in the City -- Clean It Up -- Close the Loop -- Let It Flow -- Rescue Desert Rivers -- Share.
Summary "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 the models on which we base our infrastructure. We will be forced to adapt. The question is whether we will continue to fight the water cycle or recognize our place in it and take advantage of the inherent services nature offers. Water, Postel writes, is a gift, the source of life itself. How will we use this greatest of gifts?"--Jacket.
Subject Water.
Water conservation.
Water use.
Water-supply.
Water consumption.
Water resources development.
Water-supply engineering.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Environmental Policy.
SCIENCE -- Earth Sciences -- Hydrology.
NATURE -- Environmental Conservation & Protection.
Water. (OCoLC)fst01171139
Water conservation. (OCoLC)fst01171608
Water consumption. (OCoLC)fst01171648
Water resources development. (OCoLC)fst01171955
Water-supply. (OCoLC)fst01172350
Water-supply engineering. (OCoLC)fst01172443
Water use. (OCoLC)fst01172188
Water consumption.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy.
Water resources development.
Water-supply.
Water-supply engineering.
Water conservation.
Water.
NATURE / Environmental Conservation & Protection.
SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Hydrology.
Water use.
ISBN 9781610917902 (hardcover)
1610917901 (hardcover)
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