When the rivers run dry : water, the defining crisis of the twenty-first century
Record details
- ISBN: 9780807085721 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- ISBN: 0807085723 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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Physical Description:
xi, 324 p. : maps ; 24 cm.
print - Publisher: Boston : Beacon Press, c2006.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Includes index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | The human sponge -- North America : crossing the Rio Grande -- Riding the water cycle -- Pakistan : the unhappy valley -- India : a colossal anarchy -- Halliburton's job for Qaddafi -- The world's largest mass poisoning -- Mirages -- The common wealth -- Lake Chad : tragedy of the floodplains -- Seas of death -- Mekong : feel of the pulse -- China : the hanging river -- Changing climate -- Wonders of the world -- Sun, silt, and stagnant ponds -- Dams that cause floods -- Palestine : poisoning the wells of peace -- The first modern water war -- Swords of Damocles -- Elisha's spring and the mysteries of Angkor -- Losing the west -- Aral sea : the end of the world -- Taking the water to the people -- Sewage on tap -- Closed basins and closed minds -- Out of thin air -- Catch the rain -- On the grapevine -- Unfailing springs -- Learning to love the floods -- Freeing Saddam's captives -- More crop per drop -- Water ethics. |
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Subject: | Water resources development Water-supply |
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