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Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
Cadiz Groundwater Storage and Dry-year Supply Program, California
Author: Coachella Canal Lining Project : Riverside and Imperial Counties, California
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Category : Coachella Valley (Calif.)
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
Mojave National Preserve (N.P) General Management Plan, San Bernardino County
Author: Federal Register
Author: Federal Register Index
Author: Chromium(VI) Handbook
Author: Jacques GuertinPublisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 0203487966
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 800
Book Description
Put together by a team of scientists, engineers, regulators, and lawyers, the Chromium(VI) Handbook consolidates the latest literature on this topic. The broad scope of this book fills the need for a comprehensive resource on chromium(VI), improving the knowledge of this contaminant at a time when the extent and degree of the problem is still being
Coachella Canal Lining Project, Riverside County, Imperial County
Author: Managing California's Groundwater
Author: The Great Thirst
Author: Norris HundleyPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520224566
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 826
Book Description
The story of "the great thirst" is brought up to date in this revised edition of Norris Hundley's outstanding history, with additional photographs and incisive descriptions of the major water-policy issues facing California now: accelerating urbanization of farmland and open spaces, persisting despoliation of water supplies, and demands for equity in water allocation for an exploding population. People the world over confront these problems, and Hundley examines them with clarity and eloquence in the unruly laboratory of California. The obsession with water has shaped California to a remarkable extent, literally as well as politically and culturally. Hundley tells how aboriginal Americans and then early Spanish and Mexican immigrants contrived to use and share the available water and how American settlers, arriving in ever-increasing numbers after the Gold Rush, transformed California into the home of the nation's preeminent water seekers. The desire to use, profit from, manipulate, and control water drives the people and events in this fascinating narrative until, by the end of the twentieth century, a large, colorful cast of characters and communities has wheeled and dealed, built, diverted, and connived its way to an entirely different statewide waterscape.
Every Drop for Sale
Author: Jeffrey RothfederPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1440649782
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
An investigative journalist explores our world on the brink of running out of usable water. Less than .0008 percent of the total water on Earth is fit for human consumption, but global consumption of fresh water is doubling every twenty years. Water has become perhaps our most precious commodity-a life-sustaining but increasingly rare and privatized resource. A dramatic gap exists between those who have adequate water for survival and those who don't, and tensions over water in some areas of the world hover just below open war. From Europe to Asia to Africa to America, Jeffrey Rothfeder has visited the world's hot spots, those with the least amount of water, as well as places where there is so much of it that plans are in the works to sell the excess to the highest bidder. In this compelling narrative account of our world in turmoil over water, Rothfeder describes the issues and struggles of the people on all sides of the water crisis: from the scarred survivors of bizarre water-management practices, to those who are willing to die for water to sustain their families and crops, to the scientists and leaders who are trying to set things straight. Important, provocative, and immensely readable, Every Drop for Sale explores a fascinating critical dilemma: As we run out of it, is water a fundamental right of everybody on Earth or just a product humans need that can be bought and sold like any other commodity?