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Buy Now	Blue Covenant: The Global Water Crisis and the Coming Battle for the Right to Water (more) »rank: 21824 by: Maude Barlow : :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 the right to life.'—from the introduction to Blue CovenantIn their international bestseller Blue Gold, Maude Barlow and co-author Tony Clarke exposed how a handful of corporations are gaining ownership and control of the earth's dwindling water supply, depriving millions of people around the world of access to this most basic of resources and accelerating the onset of a ...	Buy Now	When the Rivers Run Dry: Water--The Defining Crisis of the Twenty-first Century (more) »rank: 16270 by: Fred Pearce : :In this groundbreaking book, veteran science correspondent Fred Pearce travels to more than thirty countries to examine the current state of crucial water sources. Deftly weaving together the complicated scientific, economic, and historic dimensions of the world water crisis, he provides our most complete portrait yet of this growing danger and its ramifications for us all. 'A strong—and scary—case that a worldwide water shortage is the most fearful looming environmental crisis. With a drumbeat of facts both horrific (thousands of wells in India and Bangladesh are poisoned by fluoride and arsenic) and fascinating (it takes 20 tons of water to make one ...
Buy Now	Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands (Vol. 1): Guiding Principles to Welcome Rain into Your Life And Landscape (more) »rank: 18642 by: Brad Lancaster : :Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands: Guiding Principles to Welcome Rain into Your Life and Landscape is the first volume of three-volume guide on how to conceptualize, design, and implement sustainable water-harvesting systems for your home, landscape, and community. This book enables you to assess your on-site resources, gives you a diverse array of strategies to maximize their potential, and empowers you with guiding principles to create an integrated, multi-functional water-harvesting plan specific to your site and needs. Volume 1 helps bring your site to life, reduce your cost of living, endow you with skills of self-reliance, and create living air conditioners of vegetation ...	Buy Now	Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond (Vol. 2): Water-Harvesting Earthworks (more) »rank: 35700 by: Brad Lancaster : :Turn water scarcity into water abundance! Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands: Guiding Principles to Welcome Rain into Your Life and Landscape is the first volume of three-volume guide on how to conceptualize, design, and implement sustainable water-harvesting systems for your home, landscape, and community. This book enables you to assess your on-site resources, gives you a diverse array of strategies to maximize their potential, and empowers you with guiding principles to create an integrated, multi-functional water-harvesting plan specific to your site and needs. Volume 2 builds on the information presented in volume 1, showing you how to select, place, size, construct, and plant ...
Buy Now	Water: The Fate of Our Most Precious Resource (more) »rank: 39388 by: Marq de Villiers : :In his award-winning book WATER, Marq de Villiers provides an eye-opening account of how we are using, misusing, and abusing our planet's most vital resource. Encompassing ecological, historical, and cultural perspectives, de Villiers reports from hot spots as diverse as China, Las Vegas, and the Middle East, where swelling populations and unchecked development have stressed fresh water supplies nearly beyond remedy. Political struggles for control of water rage around the globe, and rampant pollution daily poses dire ecological theats. With one eye on these looming crises and the other on the history of our dependence on our planet's most precious commodity, de ...	Buy Now	Rain Gardens: Managing Water Sustainably in the Garden and Designed Landscape (more) »rank: 46537 by: Nigel Dunnett, Andy Clayden : :Rain gardens encompass all possible elements that can be used to capture, channel, divert and make the most of the rain and snow that fall on a property. Using the innovative and attractive approaches described here, it is possible to enhance outdoor spaces and minimize the damaging effects of drought, stormwater runoff, and other environmental challenges. Nigel Dunnett & Andy Clayden have created a comprehensive guide to water management techniques for the garden and built environment. Filled with practical, manageable solutions for small and large-scale implementations and utilizing authoritative research with state-of-the-art case studies from all over the world, Rain Gardens is ...
Buy Now	Blue Planet Run: The Race to Provide Safe Drinking Water to the World (more) »rank: 130222 from: Earth Aware Editions : :From the creators of the highly acclaimed New York Times best-selling Day in the Life and America 24/7 series, Rick Smolan and Jennifer Erwitt, Blue Planet Run provides readers with a fascinating and thought-provoking look at the water problems facing humanity on every continent, as well as some of the hopeful solutions and courageous “water heroes” focused on alleviating this crisis. The large-format volume features more than 250 photographs by the world’s top photojournalists, illustrations by leading infographic artist Nigel Holmes, and provocative essays by Diane Ackerman (A Natural History of the Senses), environmental leaders Paul Hawken and Bill McKibben, journalists Michael ...	Buy Now	Water Wars: Privatization, Pollution, and Profit (more) »rank: 19789 by: Vandana Shiva : :Vandana Shiva, 'the world's most prominent radical scientist' (the Guardian), exposes yet another corporate maneuver to convert a critical world resource into a profitable commodity. Using the global water trade as a lens, she highlights the destruction of the earth and the disenfranchisement of the world's poor as they lose their right to a life-sustaining common good.
Buy Now	Song for the Blue Ocean: Encounters Along the World's Coasts and Beneath the Seas (more) »rank: 631241 by: Carl Safina : :To understand connections between habitat protection and our long-term survival, a world-class scientist and fisherman probes for truth in this world tour of marine resources. As with the moon's effect on the tides, the author shows that commerce exerts a tremendous downward pull on the world's oceans--but the marine world can be replenished. The choice is ours. 4 maps. Review:The oceans of the world rank foremost among humankind's last great frontiers, and their climatological and ecological workings remain mysterious to all but specialists. In this lively, well-written survey, marine scientist Carl Safina encourages readers to take a wider interest in the ...	Buy Now	The Great Lakes Water Wars (more) »rank: 169113 by: Peter Annin : : The Great Lakes are the largest collection of fresh surface water on earth, and more than 40 million Americans and Canadians live in their basin. Will we divert water from the Great Lakes, causing them to end up like Central Asia's Aral Sea, which has lost 90 percent of its surface area and 75 percent of its volume since 1960? Or will we come to see that unregulated water withdrawals are ultimately catastrophic? Peter Annin writes a fast-paced account of the people and stories behind these battles. Destined to be the definitive story for the general public as well as policymakers, ...