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Cadillac Desert : the American West and Its Disappearing Water, Revised and Updated (Rev 93 Edition)
by Marc Reisner  
Publisher Comments Newly updated, this timely history of the struggle to discover and control water in the American West is a tale of rivers diverted and damned, political corruption and intrigue, billion-dollar battles over water rights, and economic and ecological...
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Blue Covenant: The Global Water Crisis and the Coming Battle for the Right to Water
by Maude Barlow Publisher Comments In "Blue Gold," the authors exposed how a handful of corporations is gaining ownership and control of the Earths dwindling water supply. This follow-up describes a powerful response to this trend: the emergence of an international, grassroots-led...
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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...
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Water Wars
by Diane Raines Ward Publisher Comments Every day, we hear alarming news about droughts, pollution, population growth, and climate change-which threaten to make water, even more than oil, the cause of war within our lifetime. Diane Raines Ward reaches beyond the headlines to illuminate our...
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Water in the West: A High Country News Reader
by Char Miller Publisher Comments A lively primer on the region's most precious and scarce resource, drawn from the pages of the newspaper that sets the standard for coverage of environmental issues in the West....
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Water Wars: Privatization, Pollution, and Profit
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 twentieth. In...
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Dam Nation: Dispatches from the Water Underground
by Cleo Woelfle-Erskine and Laura Allen and July Oskar Cole and Annie Danger
Publisher Comments Dam Nation combines environmental victories in the sustainable use movement with hands-on, participatory options for country and city dwellers. Not just a "how-to" but a "why-to," the book begins with the story of dams in the American West, and...
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Saving Homewaters: The Story of Montana's Streams and Rivers
by Gordon Sullivan Publisher Comments A remarkable account of Montana's efforts to save its trout streams and rivers from pollution and neglect.The fabled nature of Montana's streams cannot be taken for granted. In the late 1800s many of Montana's rivers were filled with pollution and dying...
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The Blue Death: Disease, Disaster, and the Water We Drink
by Robert D. Morris Publisher Comments With the keen eyes of a scientist and the sensibilities of a seasoned writer, Dr. Robert Morris chronicles the fascinating and at times frightening story of our drinking water. His gripping narrative vividly recounts the epidemics that have shaken...
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Water Stewardship: A 30 Day Program to Protect and Conserve Our Water Resources
by David Gershon Publisher Comments In Water Stewardship: A 30 Day Program to Protect and Conserve Our Water Resources... One Drop at a Time, environmental behavior change pioneer David Gershon uses his time-tested empowerment methodology to empower readers to take an active role in...
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Bear River: Last Chance to Change Course
by Craig Denton Publisher Comments Craig Denton notes, “Water will be the primary political, social, and economic issue in the Intermountain West in the twenty-first century.” Urban Utah thirsts for the Great Salt Lake principal source, the Bear River. Plans abound to...
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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...
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Thirst: Fighting the Corporate Theft of Our Water
by Alan Snitow Publisher Comments We are at the tipping point in the new global water wars, and the United States is a major front. What happens now will determine the fate of our water and whether it will become the oil of the 21st century. Picking up where the authors' successful...
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Gasp! The Swift and Terrible Beauty of Air
by Joe Sherman Publisher Comments From a baby's first breath-that universal and fundamental entry into life outside the womb-air is taken for granted. Joe Sherman's Gasp is an entertaining investigation of air and the discoveries of how it works in the body and in our world. Inhale, and...
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From the Bottom Up: One Man's Crusade to Clean America's Rivers
by Chad Pregracke Synopsis Chad Pregracke was a high school student when he first glimpsed the trash that littered the bottom of the Mississippi, a shocking sight that launched him on a quest to clean up the river. After four discouraging years seeking government help without...
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Mirage: Florida and the Vanishing Water of the Eastern U.S.
by Cynthia Barnett Publisher Comments “Never before has the case been more compellingly made that America’s dependence on a free and abundant water supply has become an illusion. Cynthia Barnett does it by telling us the stories of the amazing personalities behind our water wars,...
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Watershed: The Undamming of America
by Elizabeth. Grossman
Publisher Comments Elizabeth Grossman's Watershed offers a close examination of the questions facing communities across North America where dam removal is on the political and ecological agenda. Dams and diversions along the rivers of America have transformed the...
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Groundwater Pollution in Africa
by Yongxin Xu Publisher Comments A collection of thirty peer-reviewed articles, this book provides a first glimpse into groundwater pollution in Africa. It begins with a broad overview of the situation in Africa highlighting topics of special significance to the continent and including...
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Water for Sale: How Business and the Market Can Resolve the World's Water Crisis
by Fredrik Segerfeldt Publisher Comments This book shows why the protesters are wrong and how more reforms could save the millions of lives and improve the lives of hundred of others....
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Air Toxics and Risk Assessment (Toxicology and Environmental Health Series)
by Edward J Calabrese Publisher Comments Unlike most books, this one actually does risk assessments for you for over 110 chemicals that are confirmed or probable air toxics. All chemicals are analyzed with a scientifically sound methodology-outlined in the book-to assess public health risk...
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