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The Last Oasis: Facing Water Scarcity

The Last Oasis: Facing Water Scarcity

Sandra Postel - Nature - 1997 - 239 pages
Argues that a long history of mismanagement of water resources has endangered our water supplies, suggests ways to conserve water, and discusses the economic, political, and ...
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Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water, Revised Edition

Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water, Revised Edition

Marc Reisner - History - 1993 - 608 pages
Newly updated, this timely history of the struggle to discover and control water in the American West is a tale of rivers diverted and damned, political corruption and intrigue ...
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Blue Gold: The Battle Against Corporate Theft of the World's Water

Blue Gold: The Battle Against Corporate Theft of the World's Water

Maude Barlow, Tony Clarke - Nature - 2002 - 296 pages
In a shocking expos, "Blue Gold, " available now in paperback, shows why, as the vice president of the World Bank has pronounced, "The wars of the next century will be about ...
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Whose water is it?: the unquenchable thirst of a water-hungry world

Whose water is it?: the unquenchable thirst of a water-hungry world

Bernadette McDonald, Douglas Jehl - Nature - 2003 - 232 pages
Presents a collection of essays covering every aspect of the water supply crisis that is affecting the global population.
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Troubled Water: Saints, Sinners, Truth And Lies About The Global Water Crisis
The Water Wars

The Water Wars

Cameron Stracher - Juvenile Fiction - 2011 - 256 pages
In a world where water has become a precious resource, Vera and her brother befriend a boy who seems to have unlimited access to water and who suspiciously disappears ...
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Tapped out: the coming world crisis in water and what we can do about it

Tapped out: the coming world crisis in water and what we can do about it

Paul Simon - Nature - 1998 - 198 pages
Outlines the problems of the water supply crisis and the steps that need to be taken to avoid disaster
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Plan B: Rescuing A Planet Under Stress And A Civilization In Trouble
Every Drop for Sale (pb reprint)

Every Drop for Sale (pb reprint)

Jeffrey Rothfeder - History - 2004 - 224 pages
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 ...
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essentials of food science