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Water Wars : Privatization, Pollution, and Profit (02 Edition) by Vandana Shiva Publisher Comments While draught and desertification are intensifying around the world, corporations are aggressively converting free-flowing water into bottled profits. The water wars of the twenty-first century may match—or even surpass—the oil wars of the... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper 
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The Devil and the Disappearing Sea: A True Story about the Aral Sea Catastrophe by Robert Ferguson Publisher Comments Environmental crisis, post-Soviet dysfunction, international intrigue, Silk Road history and an unsolved murder - this darkly comic true-crime memoir reads like a novel and is packed with pleasing details for the non-fiction reader.... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price: $9.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Ripple Effect: The Fate of Freshwater in the Twenty-First Century by Alex Prud'homme Publisher Comments Will there be enough drinkable water to satisfy future demand? What is the state of our water infrastructure—both the pipes that bring us freshwater and the levees that keep it out? How secure is our water supply from natural disasters and... (read more) Your price: $17.00 New - Trade Paper
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The Oregon Water Handbook: A Guide to Water and Water Managementt by Rick Bastasch Publisher Comments This in-depth examination of water law and management in Oregon provides a compelling perspective on a major environmental issues in the American West--the region's diminishing water supply. Bastasch offers thorough yet accessible explanations of a... (read more) List Price $30.50 Your price: $17.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Ogallala Blue: Water and Life on the Great Plains by William Ashworth Publisher Comments "Ogalalla Blue" is the story of a crucial, dwindling natural resource: an invisible ocean of fresh water under the Great Plains. This is an account of people as well as water, with many vignettes of those living in the shadow of the Ogallala's decline... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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Totem Salmon: Life Lessons from Another Species by Freeman House Publisher Comments Part lyrical natural history, part social and philosophical manifesto, Totem Salmon tells the story of a determined band of locals who've worked for over two decades to save one of the last purely native species of salmon in California. The book-call it... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Red Delta: Fighting for Life at the End of the Colorado River by Charles Bergman Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 290-302) and index.... (read more) List Price $27.25 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Land, Water and Development: Sustainable and Adaptive Management of Rivers by Malcolm Newson Publisher Comments Water is newsworthy: there is, or will be, a world water crisis. Aggravated by climate change, we are approaching the limits of human exploitation of freshwater resources, notably in growing essential food. The complexities and uncertainties associated... (read more) Your price: $51.95 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Clean Water: An Introduction to Water Quality and Pollution Control by Kenneth M Vigil Publisher Comments Clean Water is a book for anyone concerned about this precious resource who wants to become better informed. In straightforward language, Kenneth Vigil provides a comprehensive introduction to the many scientific, regulatory, cultural, and geographic... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Riverkeepers: Two Activists Fight to Reclaim Our Environment as a Basic Human Right by John Cronin Publisher Comments A modern-day David and Goliath tale, The Riverkeepers is an impassioned firsthand account by two advocates who have taken on powerful corporate and government polluters to win back the Hudson River. John Cronin and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., tell us how we... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Recovering a Lost River: Removing Dams, Rewilding Salmon, Revitalizing Communities by Steven Hawley Publisher Comments A powerful argument for why dam removal makes good scientific, economic, and environmental sense—and requires our urgent attention In the Pacific Northwest, the Snake River and its wilderness tributaries were once some of the world’s... (read more) Your price: $26.95 New - Hardcover
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Rivers for Life: Managing Water for People and Nature by Sandra Postel Publisher Comments "...a clarion call to society for the need to balance human demands with the needs of our world's rivers, the arterial system of life on this planet. The authors describe the vanguard movement to restore rivers and to reconnect rivers with their flood... (read more) List Price $30.75 Your price: $11.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Reining in the Rio Grande: People, Land, and Water by Fred M Phillips Publisher Comments The Rio Grande was ancient long before the first humans reached its banks. These days, the highly regulated river looks nothing like it did to those early settlers. Alternately viewed as a valuable ecosystem and life-sustaining foundation of community... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $25.00 Used - Hardcover
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Water Quality Management #0001: Water Quality Characteristics: Modeling and Modification by George Tchobanoglous Publisher Comments Water Quality provides a comprehensive introduction to water quality management. The book progresses in a logical fashion from the characterization of water quality to the significance of the various contaminants, to the methods used to describe changes... (read more) List Price $171.75 Your price: $40.00 Used - Hardcover
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Entering the Watershed: A New Approach to Save America's River Ecosystems by Bob Doppelt Publisher Comments Entering the Watershed is the product of a two-year project established by the Pacific Rivers Council to develop new federal riverine protection and restoration policy alternatives. It recommends a comprehensive new approach to river protection based on... (read more) List Price $60.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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California Natural History Guides #76: Introduction to Water in California by David Carle Publisher Comments The food each of us consumes per day represents an investment of 4,500 gallons of water, according to the California Farm Bureau. In this densely populated state where it rains only six months out of the year, where does all that water come from? This... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $12.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Water Watching by Edmund W. Jupp Synopsis There is a great variety of surface water to be seen, such as waterfalls, streams, rivers, puddles, and lakes. Also there is rain, snow, hail, frost and dew. This work aims to show readers that water is an interesting phenomenon.... (read more) Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Oceana: Our Planet's Endangered Oceans and What We Can Do to Save Them by Ted Danson Publisher Comments Most people know Ted Danson as the affable bartender Sam Malone in the long-running television series Cheers. But fewer realize that over the course of the past two and a half decades, Danson has tirelessly devoted himself to the cause of heading off a... (read more) List Price $32.50 Your price: $12.95 Used - Hardcover
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Globalization of Water: Sharing the Planet's Freshwater Resources by Arjen Y Hoekstra Publisher Comments Globalization of Wateris a first-of-its-kind review of the critical relationship between globalization and sustainable water management. It explores the impact of international trade on local water depletion and pollution and identifies “water... (read more) List Price $98.95 Your price: $25.00 Used - Hardcover
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Water Follies: Groundwater Pumping and the Fate of America's Fresh Waters by Robert J Glennon Publisher Comments Leading landscape architect and planner Carl Steinitz has developed an innovative GIS-based simulation modeling strategy that considers the demographic, economic, physical, and environmental processes of an area and projects the consequences to that area... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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