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Conservation of natural resources Government policy Environmental protection Globalization International economic relations Land use Environmental aspects Marketing Moral and ethical aspects Natural resources Water resources development Water resources development Government policy Water-supplyRichter, 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 RICSummary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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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
Postel, 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 POSUnited Nations World Water Assessment Press
Summary: A global assessment of the state of freshwater resources.
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Publisher / Publication Date: UNESCO Publishing 2009
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 333.91 UNIPearce, Fred
Summary: Throughout history, rivers have been our foremost source of fresh water for both agriculture and individual consumption, but looming water scarcity threatens to cut global food production and cause conflict and unrest. In this visionary book, Fred Pearce takes readers around the world on a tour of the world's rivers to provide our most complete portrait yet of the growing global water crisis...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 333.91 PEAFishman, 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 FISPearce, Fred.
Summary: It was with the Colorado River that engineers first learned to control great rivers. But now the Colorado"s reservoirs are two-thirds empty. Great rivers like the Indus and the Nile, the Rio Grande and the Yellow River are running on empty. And economists say that by 2025, water scarcity will cut global food production by more than the current U.S. grain harvest. Veteran science correspondent...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 333.91 PEASummary: A look at the world's water crisis and how the causes of the depleting water supply is connected to pollution, human rights, and even politics. Features interviews with scientists and activists. Includes commentary, expanded interviews, and more.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oscilloscope Pictures 2008
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2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC FLOPiper, 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 SEDDe 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 DEVSummary: While high-tech agriculture is one of the hallmarks of Western society, a growing number of Americans and Europeans believe that our farming methods are harmful on a number of levels. This program looks at the evolving debate over industrialized food production versus organic farming. Showing how and why farming techniques and policies have changed in the U.K. and similar countries over the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Barnett, 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 BARAnnin, Peter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Island Press 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 333.91 ANNBarlow, 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 BARSummary: For decades, local food producers in the West have faced a shrinking market share. But if well-intentioned Americans and Europeans stop eating vegetables from Africa, will Africans have more to eat? Or will we simply deprive African farmers of a living? This program delves into that issue and other food-related problems, some of which have solutions while others urgently await answers. Viewers...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Contents: The Nan Weston Preserve at Sharon Hollow / Keith Taylor -- Coolbough : an experience in land transformation / Howard Meyerson -- Along the Paw Paw / Alison Swan -- Ditches and rivers / Anne-Marie Oomen -- In the heart of the two hearted / Jack Driscoll -- Erie Marsh / Janet Kauffman -- Journey to Les Cheneaux / Elizabeth Kostova -- The gray beast : all wildness and wet / Stephanie Mills --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Michigan Press 2008
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MI 508.77 KnoCopies Available at Interlochen
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 508.774 MICRoy, Arundhati.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Modern Library 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 333.9115 ROYDempsey, Dave
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Michigan Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 333.91 DEM1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: NEL 333.91 DEM
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Environ DempseySummary: What's wrong with enjoying the rich variety of foods that importers make available? Do the reported drawbacks of globalization mean that we should eat only locally grown food? How are Western food choices related to environmental problems and to developing-world farmers? This program explores those questions by studying agricultural practices in the United Kingdom and worldwide. Comparing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: "The plow that broke the plains" depicts the social and economic history of the Great Plains from the settlement of the prairies by cattlemen and farmers through the World War I boom to drought and depression. "The river" traces life in the Mississippi River Valley during the previous 150 years, showing the consequences of sharecropping, soil exhaustion, unchecked erosion and floods, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Naxos 2007
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC PLOSummary: Filmed in a wide range of suburban and metropolitan areas around the United States, this program presents a dynamic and thought-provoking exploration of American suburbia, including its genesis and history, its dramatic political and social evolution, and its developmental challenges. Viewers are guided through specific issues facing the nation’s suburban landscape, including problems in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011