Thompson, 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 Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 333.91 THO

Annin, 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 Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 628.1 ANN

Dempsey, 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 DEM
1 available in Local Author, Call number: 333.91 DEM

Summary: In this new 2023 high-definition program, learn about all of the various bodies of water on earth. What are the differences between ponds, lakes, oceans, rivers, etc.? What are connective bodies of water? What are the human-made bodies of water? The answers to all of these questions and more are covered in depth with exciting video and dynamic graphics that reinforce important concepts.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV GEO

Chariton, Jordan

Summary: "We the poisoned exposes the full, never-before-told story of who is responsible for the poisoning of Flint and the coverup of the Flint water crisis. From state and local government to Wall Street and beyond, readers will uncover one of the biggest government cover ups of the 21st century that is still ongoing and attacking innocent people"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 2024

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.6 CHA

McHale, Brenda

Summary: Water is essential for all life on Earth. From irrigating fields to drinking it ourselves, water is the one thing that separates Earth from other uninhabitable planets. But what happens when water dries up? This book provides a simple introduction to climate change and one of its consequences: drier places are getting drier, and places that weren't dry before are also getting drier.

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Publisher / Publication Date: PowerKids 2022

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 551.57 MCH