Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Tampa Bay Regional Reservoir Project
Author: Central Florida Phosphate Industry: Responses to comments on DEIS
Author: United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Region IV.Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Environmental impact statements
Languages : en
Pages : 732
Book Description
North Suncoast Corridor, Northwest Hillsborough Expressway to US-98, to FL-52, Hillsborough County, Pasco County, and Hernando County
Author: Preservation of Instream Flows
Author: Verne W. HouseMirage
Author: Cynthia BarnettPublisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472021451
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
“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, the stunning contradictions that allow the wettest state to have the most watered lawns, and the thorough research that makes her conclusions inescapable. Barnett has established herself as one of Florida’s best journalists and Mirage is a must-read for anyone who cares about the future of the state.” —Mary Ellen Klas, Capital Bureau Chief, Miami Herald “Mirage is the finest general study to date of the freshwater-supply crisis in Florida. Well-meaning villains abound in Cynthia Barnett’s story, but so too do heroes, such as Arthur R. Marshall Jr., Nathaniel Reed, and Marjorie Harris Carr. The author’s research is as thorough as her prose is graceful. Drinking water is the new oil. Get used to it.” —Michael Gannon, Distinguished Professor of history, University of Florida, and author of Florida: A Short History “With lively prose and a journalist’s eye for a good story, Cynthia Barnett offers a sobering account of water scarcity problems facing Florida—one of our wettest states—and the rest of the East Coast. Drawing on lessons learned from the American West, Mirage uses the lens of cultural attitudes about water use and misuse to plead for reform. Sure to engage and fascinate as it informs.” —Robert Glennon, Morris K. Udall Professor of Law and Public Policy, University of Arizona, and author of Water Follies: Groundwater Pumping and the Fate of America’s Fresh Waters Part investigative journalism, part environmental history, Mirage reveals how the eastern half of the nation—historically so wet that early settlers predicted it would never even need irrigation—has squandered so much of its abundant freshwater that it now faces shortages and conflicts once unique to the arid West. Florida’s parched swamps and supersized residential developments set the stage in the first book to call attention to the steady disappearance of freshwater in the American East, from water-diversion threats in the Great Lakes to tapped-out freshwater aquifers along the Atlantic seaboard. Told through a colorful cast of characters including Walt Disney, Jeb Bush and Texas oilman Boone Pickens, Mirage ferries the reader through the key water-supply issues facing America and the globe: water wars, the politics of development, inequities in the price of water, the bottled-water industry, privatization, and new-water-supply schemes. From its calamitous opening scene of a sinkhole swallowing a house in Florida to its concluding meditation on the relationship between water and the American character, Mirage is a compelling and timely portrait of the use and abuse of freshwater in an era of rapidly vanishing natural resources.
Low Impact Development
Author: Publisher:
ISBN: 9780979970610
Category : Ecological landscape design
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
The manual introduces general audiences to designing landscapes for urban stormwater runoff -- a primary source of watershed pollution. The goal is to motivate awareness and implementation of LID in a wide cross-section of stakeholders, from property owners to municipal governments that regulate infrastructure development. The manual provides a holistic framework in which a novice homeowner and an experienced developer can each find an equally tranformative role to enact.
Desalination
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309119235
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
There has been an exponential increase in desalination capacity both globally and nationally since 1960, fueled in part by growing concern for local water scarcity and made possible to a great extent by a major federal investment for desalination research and development. Traditional sources of supply are increasingly expensive, unavailable, or controversial, but desalination technology offers the potential to substantially reduce water scarcity by converting the almost inexhaustible supply of seawater and the apparently vast quantities of brackish groundwater into new sources of freshwater. Desalination assesses the state of the art in relevant desalination technologies, and factors such as cost and implementation challenges. It also describes reasonable long-term goals for advancing desalination technology, posits recommendations for action and research, estimates the funding necessary to support the proposed research agenda, and identifies appropriate roles for governmental and nongovernmental entities.
Nuclear Regulatory Commission Issuances
Author: U.S. Nuclear Regulatory CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nuclear energy
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Subdivisions with the Lot
Author: Simon LibbisPublisher:
ISBN: 9781876462048
Category : Land subdivision
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
Not just plain subdivisions - this looseleaf service comes with the lot, including selling and buying "off the plan", bodies corporate, common property, coping with building legislation, and much more. It has checklists, precedents, forms, examples and legislation. A complete copy of the Subdivision Act, along with the body corporate and procedures regulations, is included. If you are involved in any way with property development or bodies corporate, this is a must have publication. An update service is offered. Subscribers receive annually the complete publication on CD-ROM.
Groundwater around the World
Author: Jean MargatPublisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 0203772148
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
This book presents a unique and up-to-date summary of what is known about groundwater on our planet, from a global perspective and in terms of area-specific factual information. Unlike most textbooks on groundwater, it does not deal with theoretical principles, but rather with the overall picture that emerges as a result of countless observations,