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Author
Publisher
Overlook Duckworth
Language
English
Description
The author, a professor at Duke University and an environmental policy expert shows how drinking water highlights the most pressing issues of our time, from globalization and social justice to terrorism and climate change, and how humans have been wrestling with these problems for centuries. When we turn on the tap or twist open a tall plastic bottle, we might not give a second thought to where our drinking water comes from. But how it gets from the...
Publisher
Massachusetts Dept. of Environmental Protection, Massachusetts Estuaries Project
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
346 p. : col. charts, col. maps, col. photos. ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
This report presents the findings and recommendations from three Pilot Projects on Cape Cod, each addressing the watershed nitrogen load conditions affecting water quality impairment for three estuaries: Popponesset Bay (Mashpee, Barnstable, and Sandwich, MA), Three Bays (Barnstable, Sandwich, and Mashpee, MA), and Pleasant Bay (Chatham, Orleans, Brewster, and Harwich, MA).
5) Poisoned water: how the citizens of Flint, Michigan, fought for their lives and warned the nation
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
243 pages : map, illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Flint, Michigan had been built up, then abandoned, by General Motors. In 2014, as part of a plan to save money, government officials decided that Flint would temporarily switch its water supply from Lake Huron to the Flint River. Within months, many residents broke out in rashes. Children stopped growing. Some people were hospitalized with mysterious illnesses; others died. Despite the murky, foul-smelling liquid pouring from the city's faucets, officials...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Description
"From the heroic pediatrician who rallied a community and brought the fight for justice to national attention comes a powerful firsthand account of the Flint water crisis--a dramatic story of failed democracy and inspiring citizen advocacy and action. In the heart of the world's wealthiest nation, one hundred thousand people were poisoned by the water supply for two years--with the knowing complicity of their government. Written by the crusading pediatrician...
Author
Publisher
Lee & Low Books Inc
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First Lee & Low edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Nibi, a Native American girl, cannot get clean water from her tap or the river, so she goes on a journey to connect with fellow water protectors and get clean water for all"--
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"New York Times bestselling author Seth M. Siegel shows how our drinking water got contaminated, what it may be doing to us, and what we must do to make it safe. If you thought America's drinking water problems started and ended in Flint, Michigan, think again. From big cities and suburbs to the rural heartland, chemicals linked to cancer, heart disease, obesity, birth defects, and lowered IQ routinely spill from our taps. Many are to blame: the EPA,...
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