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Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 362 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), color map ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Water. The single most necessary element to sustain life. Brockovich warns that America's water crisis isn't looming on the horizon--it's already here. Superman Isn't Coming makes clear that the most precious resource on planet Earth is alarmingly polluted by toxins, hazardous waste, lead, fracking chemicals, and more. In the 20 years since her eponymous film, Brockovich has kept up the fight for clean water one town at a time. She receives thousands...
Author
Publisher
Currency
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
321 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
The founder of "charity:water" describes the unlikely establishment of his nonprofit and the renowned transparency, marketing, and model that have helped it take a leading role in addressing the world's water crisis.
5) Slingshot
Publisher
Passion River
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (88 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Profiles inventor Dean Kamen and looks at his latest invention, a vapor condenser system for purifying water that could solve the world's water supply problems.
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,...
Publisher
League of Women Voters of Michigan
Pub. Date
c1991
Physical Desc
1 videocassette (28 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in. + 1 study guide.
Language
English
Description
Drinking water--how we can protect our sources, develop and maintain treatment and delivery systems, and take action to conserve use and control.
Series
Reference shelf volume 93, no. 3
Publisher
Grey House Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
xiii, 232 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Each year since 1925, students from around the country engage in debates informed by the National Forensic League's (NFL) yearly national debate topic. Covering topics that range from U.S. foreign relations and economic policy abroad to key domestic issues, the NFL debate topics help shape academic and public discussions of some of the country's current issues and controversies.
All life on Earth depends on water and, for humanity, water is the key...
Author
Publisher
Schwartz & Wade Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Cody is worried when his family on a New Mexico Navajo reservation runs out of water, but Darlene Arviso, called "The Water Lady," is on the way with her tanker truck. Includes glossary of Navajo terms and notes about Arviso and life on a reservation.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Erin Brockovich meets Dark Waters in this propulsive and heart-wrenching legal drama set in Appalachian coal country, as one determined lawyer confronts a coal industry giant in a battle over clean drinking water for a West Virginia community--from Wall Street Journal reporter Kris Maher. For two decades, the water in the taps and wells of Mingo County didn't look, smell, or taste right. Could it be the root of the health problems--from kidney stones...
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
274 pages : map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The Colorado River is a crucial resource for a surprisingly large part of the United States, and every gallon that flows down it is owned or claimed by someone. David Owen traces all that water from the Colorado's headwaters to its parched terminus, once a verdant wetland but now a million-acre desert. He takes readers on an adventure downriver, along a labyrinth of waterways, reservoirs, power plants, farms, fracking sites, ghost towns, and RV parks,...
Publisher
Distributed by PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 90 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Wars of the future will be fought over water, as they are today over oil, as the source of all life enters the global marketplace and political arena. Corporate giants, private investors, and corrupt governments vie for control of our dwindling fresh water supply, prompting protests, lawsuits, and revolutions from citizens fighting for the right to survive. Past civilizations have collapsed from poor water management. Will ours too?"--Container.
Author
Publisher
Ecco
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
xviii, 315 pages : illustrations (some color), map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Documents the story of William Mulholland's Los Angeles aqueduct, the largest public water project ever built, describing how it transformed a small desert city into a modern metropolis.
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