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[2022]
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"Scientists, engineers, academics, and environmentalists warn that unless water use is drastically reduced, severe water shortage will affect the entire planet by 2040. But what does that mean? Why? What should we do? Are We Running Out of Water? unravels the issues and the answers using a visual thinking technique called mind mapping, which makes complicated subjects easy to understand. Beautiful illustrations bring the many issues, concepts, and...
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[2017].
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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...
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2009
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"Water in the 21st-Century West offers a timely look at the central issue facing the American West - the region's diminishing water supply. It collects the best reporting on the subject, drawn from the pages of High Country News, the newspaper that sets the standard for coverage of environmental issues in the West." "This book provides compelling perspectives on the water issues and controversies that roil the region, from the Pacific Northwest to...
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[2023]
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"Western Water A-to-Z is the first field guide dedicated to Western water. Reinventing this twentieth-century genre for a twenty-first-century audience, Crifasi describes water projects, the culture of water, the ecosystems that water projects have created or destroyed, and the reliance of modern life on this critical resource"--
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