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Blue Covenant: The Global Water Crisis and the Coming Battle for the Right to Water
by Maude Barlow  Publisher Comments A passionate call to action from one of the leading voices in the global struggle for universal access to the earth's most vital element—a sequel to the acclaimed Blue Gold. "Life requires access to clean water; to deny the right to water is to deny...
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Bottlemania: How Water Went on Sale and Why We Bought It
by Elizabeth Royte Publisher Comments An incisive, intrepid, and habit-changing narrative investigation into the commercialization of our most basic human need: drinking water. Having already surpassed milk and beer, and second now only to soda, bottled water is on the verge of becoming the...
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Cadillac Desert : the American West and Its Disappearing Water, Revised and Updated (Rev 93 Edition)
by Marc Reisner 
Synopsis 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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Water War in the Klamath Basin: Macho Law, Combat Biology, and Dirty Politics
by Holly Doremus and A. Dan Tarlock Publisher Comments In the drought summer of 2001, a simmering conflict between agricultural and environmental interests in southern Oregon’s Upper Klamath Basin turned into a guerrilla war of protests, vandalism, and apocalyptic rhetoric when the federal Bureau of...
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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 twentieth. In...
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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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Mirage: Florida and the Vanishing Water of the Eastern U.S.
by Cynthia Barnett Publisher Comments In the days before the Internet, books like Rachel Carson's Silent Spring and Marjorie Stoneman Douglas' River of Grass were groundbreaking calls to action that made citizens and politicians take notice. Mirage is such a book.--St. Petersburg Times Never...
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Blue Gold : the Fight To Stop the Corporate Theft of the World's Water (02 Edition)
by Maude Barlow Publisher Comments A real-life thriller about the corporate takeover of our most basic resource. In a shocking exposé, Blue Gold shows why, as the vice president of the World Bank has pronounced, "The wars of the next century will be about water." Increasingly...
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The Holy Order of Water: Healing Earth's Waters and Ourselves
by William E Marks Synopsis Long gone are the days of drinking naturally pure water from flowing rivers and streams. It is already common today for people to use bottled water or home water filtration systems for their drinking water. How have we come to such a predicament, and...
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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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The River Stops Here: Saving Round Valley a Pivotal Chapter in California's Water Wars
by Ted Simon Synopsis A rancher's stubborn refusal to be flooded out by the Army Corps of Engineers led him to mount an extraordinary crusade against California's most powerful forces of the time--the 60s water lobby. He created a new environmental coalition, helped save the...
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Secret Knowledge of Water : Discovering the Essence of the American Desert (00 Edition)
by Craig Childs
Publisher Comments Like the highest mountain peaks, deserts are environments that can be inhospitable even to the most seasoned explorers. As Craig Childs makes clear in this highly praised book, there are two easy ways to die in the desert: thirst or drowning. His...
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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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River of Life, Channel of Death: Fish and Dams on the Lower Snake
by Keith C Petersen Synopsis Keith Petersen's award-winning history of the lower Snake River dams chronicles the bitter conflict between the Northwest's most potent symbols -- fish and dams. Taking a balanced approach to this contentious issue, Petersen deftly traces the deep...
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Pillar of Sand: Can the Irrigation Miracle Last? (Environmental Alert Series)
by Sandra Postel Synopsis The overriding lesson from history is that most irrigation-based civilizations fail. As we enter the third millennium, the question arises: Will ours be any different?...
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To Follow the Water: Exploring the Ocean to Discover Climate
by Dallas Murphy Publisher Comments In To Follow the Water, critically acclaimed author Dallas Murphy artfully recasts the story of human expansion and cultural development with the ocean playing the central role. Applying a novelist’s eye for detail and a historian’s drive for...
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The Water Atlas: A Unique Visual Analysis of the World's Most Critical Resource
by Robin Clarke Synopsis - Americans consume 600 liters of water per day, Europeans 250, and Africans 30. - Just 9 countries possess 60 percent of the world's supply of fresh water: Brazil, Russia, China, Canada, Indonesia, United States, India, Colombia, and Zaire. - It takes 8...
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Fresh Water (98 Edition)
by E. C. Pielou Publisher Comments With the eye of a professional scientist and the passion of a dedicated amateur, E. C. Pielou conducts a guided tour of fresh water on its course through the natural world. As the world's supply of clean, fresh water continues to dwindle, it becomes...
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The Columbia: Sustaining a Modern Resource
by Tim Palmer Publisher Comments In The Columbia, author and photographer Tim Palmer celebrates the beauty and natural resources of this grand region and shows why this watershed is so important to everyone who lives in or cares about the Northwest and the Northern Rockies. Focusing on...
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Natural Disasters: Floods: A Reference Handbook
by E Willard Miller Synopsis Problems and crises. Analyses and answers. Contemporary World Issues explores -- topic by topic -- the critical challenges facing America and the world in the 21"st" century. 24-hour cable news. Millions of Internet sites. Information overload. How can...
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