When the rivers run dry : water, the defining crisis of the twenty-first century / Fred Pearce.
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TextPublisher: Boston : Beacon Press, c2006Description: xi, 324 p. : maps ; 24 cmISBN: 0807085723 (hardcover : alk. paper); 9780807085721Subject(s): Water resources development | Water-supplyDDC classification: 333.91 LOC classification: TC405 | .P43 2006Online resources: Table of contents only | Publisher description | Item type | Current location | Home library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Institute of Environmental Science and Engineering (IESE) | Institute of Environmental Science and Engineering (IESE) | 333.91 (Browse shelf) | Available | IESE2023 |
Includes index.
1. The human sponge -- 2. North America : crossing the Rio Grande -- 3. Riding the water cycle -- 4. Pakistan : the unhappy valley -- 5. India : a colossal anarchy -- 6. Halliburton's job for Qaddafi -- 7. The world's largest mass poisoning -- 8. Mirages -- 9. The common wealth -- 10. Lake Chad : tragedy of the floodplains -- 11. Seas of death -- 12. Mekong : feel of the pulse -- 13. China : the hanging river -- 14. Changing climate -- 15. Wonders of the world -- 16. Sun, silt, and stagnant ponds -- 17. Dams that cause floods -- 18. Palestine : poisoning the wells of peace -- 19. The first modern water war -- 20. Swords of Damocles -- 21. Elisha's spring and the mysteries of Angkor -- 22. Losing the west -- 23. Aral sea : the end of the world -- 24. Taking the water to the people -- 25. Sewage on tap -- 26. Closed basins and closed minds -- 27. Out of thin air -- 28. Catch the rain -- 29. On the grapevine -- 30. Unfailing springs -- 31. Learning to love the floods -- 32. Freeing Saddam's captives -- 33. More crop per drop -- 34. Water ethics
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