Richter, Brian D.
Summary: "Water scarcity is spreading and intensifying in many regions of the world, with dire consequences for local communities, economies, and freshwater ecosystems. Current approaches tend to rely on policies crafted at the state or national level, which on their own have proved insufficient to arrest water scarcity. To be durable and effective, water plans must be informed by the culture,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 333 RICThompson, Barton H.
Summary: "A sweeping, policy-oriented account of the private and public management of the world's essential natural resource. Governments dominated water management throughout the 20th century. Tasked with ensuring a public supply of clean, safe, reliable, and affordable water, governmental agencies controlled water administration in most of the world. They built the dams, reservoirs, and aqueducts to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stanford University Press 2024
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 333.91 THOMasters, Nancy Robinson.
Summary: Examines the water cycle, capturing and storing water and how water gets to homes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cherry Lake Pub. 2010
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J628.1 MASOlien, Rebecca
Summary: "Describes how cities treat freshwater so that it is safe to drink"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press 2016
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J628.162 OLIPostel, Sandra
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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Island Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 551.4 POSShepard, Mark
Summary: Helps farmers capture water in areas they want to, and avoid having water flow immediately to the low point.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Acres U.S.A. 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 631.7 SHEClark, Anna (Anna Leigh)
Summary: "When the people of Flint, Michigan, turned on their faucets in April 2014, the water pouring out was poisoned with lead and other toxins. Through a series of disastrous decisions, the state government had switched the city's water supply to a source that corroded Flint's aging lead pipes. Complaints about the foul-smelling water were dismissed: the residents of Flint, mostly poor and African...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 363.6 CLACopies Available at Woodmere
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.6 CLACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Environ ClarkBarlow, Maude.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Press 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 333.91 BARSmith, Zachary A. (Zachary Alden)
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Publisher / Publication Date: ABC-CLIO 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 333.91 SMIRingstad, Arnold
Summary: Gives readers a behind-the-scenes look at the building of the Hoover Dam. Additional features include a table of contents, a Fast Facts spread, critical-thinking questions, primary source quotes and accompanying source notes, a phonetic glossary, an index, and sources for further research.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Child's World, Inc. 2017
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1 available in J Non Fic Series, Call number: J 609 RINCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J609 MOMDe Villiers, Marq.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 333.91 DEVDempsey, Dave
Summary: "The Great Lakes contain 20 percent of the world's surface fresh water -- and attract an even bigger share of the world's lust for water profit. As threats of water commercialization grow, those who love the Great Lakes must learn how we got here, and what we need to do." -- back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mission Point Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 333.91 DEM1 available in Local Author, Call number: 333.91 DEM
Ward, Diane Raines.
Summary: From the co-author of "Tiger-Wallahs" comes a book on what every person should know--beyond the headlines of the current global water crisis--about the history and fate of our most vital resource.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 333.91 WARWhite, Gary
Summary: "From the founders of nonprofits Water.org & WaterEquity Gary White and Matt Damon, the incredible true story of two unlikely allies on a mission to end the global water crisis for good When Oscar-winning actor Matt Damon visited rural Zambia in 2006, the last thing he expected was to become a life-long champion for the battle to end the global water and sanitation crisis. He quickly realized...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Portfolio/Penguin 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 333.91 WHIBarnett, Cynthia
Summary: Discusses concerns over fresh- and groundwater supplies in the early twenty-first century, examines the efforts of individuals, businesses, and governments to reduce water use, and describes technologies that improve the amount of water used for agricultural irrigation, the amount of money businesses can save by recycling air conditioning condensation, and related topics.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 333.91 BARBirkhold, Matthew H.
Summary: "Harvesting icebergs for drinking water is not a new idea. But for the first time in human history, doing so on a massive global scale is both increasingly feasible and necessary for our survival. Chasing Icebergs delivers a kaleidoscopic history of humans' relationship with icebergs, and offers an urgent assessment of the technological, cultural, and legal obstacles we must overcome to harness...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 551.34 BIRBurns, Max
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cottage Life Books 1993
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 628.7 BURAnnin, Peter
Summary: "In 2000, a transformative climate-driven 'megadrought' swept over the Colorado River watershed. By the early 2020s, levels on the river's two largest reservoirs were hitting record lows and threatening the water supply for forty million people. Outside the West, water stocks are stressed even in states with bountiful rainfall such as Florida. From coast to coast, conventional measures to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Island Press 2023
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 628.1 ANNFishman, Charles
Summary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 333.91 FISGleick, Peter H.
Summary: "In The Three Ages of Water, expert on water resources and climate change Peter Gleick guides us through the long, fraught history of our most valuable resource. Spread over a ten-thousand-year human history, it begins with the fundamental evolutionary role water had in shaping early civilizations and empires, crests to the scientific and social revolutions that created modern society, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 333.91 GLESiegel, Seth M.
Summary: "New York Times bestselling author Seth M. Siegel shows how our drinking water got contaminated, what it may be doing to us, and what we must do to make it safe. If you thought America's drinking water problems started and ended in Flint, Michigan, thinkagain. From big cities and suburbs to the rural heartland, chemicals linked to cancer, heart disease, obesity, birth defects, and lowered IQ...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.71 SIEPiper, Karen Lynnea
Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Minnesota Press 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 333 PIPSedlak, David L.
Summary: "Turn on the faucet, and water pours out. Pull out the drain plug, and the dirty water disappears. Most of us give little thought to the hidden systems that bring us water and take it away when we're done with it. But these underappreciated marvels of engineering face an array of challenges that cannot be solved without a fundamental change to our relationship with water, David Sedlak explains...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale Univ Pr 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 333 SEDAnnin, Peter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Island Press 2006