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Author
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Water Always Wins transports us around the world and back through time, exposing us to better ways to live with water. Gies introduces us to water experts the world over as they search for clues to water's past and present, using close observation, historical research, ancient animal and human wisdom, and cutting-edge science to effect change. We become more aware of the ways in which modern civilizations speed water away, erasing its slow phases...
42) Slingshot
Publisher
Passion River
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Profiles inventor Dean Kamen and looks at his latest invention, a vapor condenser system for purifying water that could solve the world's water supply problems.
Series
Publisher
Public Affairs
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Less than 1 percent of the world's water is fresh and potable--and no more will ever be available. Thanks to pollution, global warming, and population growth, water access is poised to become today's most explosive global issue. This book, based on the film Last Call at the Oasis by Academy Award®-winning director Jessica Yu, offers insights into the coming water crisis from visionary scientists, policymakers, activists, and environmentalists, including:...
Author
Publisher
Georgetown University Press
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
This is a study of Asia's murky water politics and the relationships among freshwater, peace, and security. The author illustrates the larger picture of water across Asia, highlights the security implications of resource-linked territorial disputes, and proposes real strategies to avoid conflict and more equitably share Asia's water resources.
51) The water wars
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Enter the world where water is worth more than gold or oil and worth killing for.
52) Thirst
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"On a searing summer Friday, Eddie Chapman has been stuck for hours in a traffic jam. There are accidents along the highway, but ambulances and police are conspicuously absent. When he decides to abandon his car and run home, he sees that the trees along the edge of a stream have been burnt, and the water in the streambed is gone. Something has gone very wrong. When he arrives home, the power is out and there is no running water. The pipes everywhere,...
53) Water
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Learn about water, where it can be found, and what it's uses are.
55) Beyond the brink
Publisher
Freestyle Digital Media
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Witness first hand how California's, evolving water crisis, is a growing threat to our National Security in its capacity of providing healthy food to our Nation and world.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
This award winning documentary directed by Sam Bozzo is based on the book BLUE GOLD: THE FIGHT TO STOP THE CORPORATE THEFT OF THE WORLD'S WATER by Maude Barlow and Tony Clark. The film examines the problems created by the privatization and commoditization of water.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Maude Barlow and Tony Clarke, two of the most active opponents to the privatization of water show how, contrary to received wisdom, water mainly flows uphill to the wealthy. Our most basic resource may one day be limited: Our consumption doubles every twenty years-twice the rate of population increase. At the same time, increasingly transnational corporations are plotting to control the world's dwindling water supply. In England and France, where...
Publisher
Oscilloscope Pictures
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Investigates the growing privatization of the world's dwindling fresh water supply from the perspective of politics, economics, pollution and environmental issues, human rights, public health, and the effects of corporate greed and apathetic governments. Features interviews with scientists and activists, who discuss the water crisis at both the global and human scale. Also gives viewers a look at the people and institutions providing practical solutions...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"A vivid, searching journey into California's complicated relationship to its water, from the Gold Rush to today : an epic story of the struggle to overcome the constraints of nature. Mark Arax is from a family of Central Valley farmers, a writer with deep ties to the land, who has watched as the battles over water have intensified even as the state lurches from drought to flood and back again. In The Dreamt Land he travels the state to explore the...
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