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Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The global water crisis is upon us. 1 in 3 people do not have access to safe drinking water; nearly 1 million people die each year as a result. Even in places with adequate freshwater, pollution and poor infrastructure have left residents without basic water security. Luckily, there is a solution to this crisis where we least expect it. Icebergs -- frozen mountains of freshwater -- are more than a symbol of climate change. In his spellbinding Chasing...
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"In The Three Ages of Water, expert on water resources and climate change Peter Gleick guides us through the long, fraught history of our most valuable resource. Spread over a ten-thousand-year human history, it begins with the fundamental evolutionary role water had in shaping early civilizations and empires, crests to the scientific and social revolutions that created modern society, and spills into the global water crisis of depleted groundwater...
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"In this richly narrated and authoritative work--combining environmental and societal history--Giulio Boccaletti begins with the earliest civilizations of sedentary farmers on the banks of the Nile, the Tigris, and the Euphrates. He describes how these societies were made possible by sea level changes from the last glacial melt. He examines how this sedentary farming led to irrigation and multiple cropping, which, in turn, resulted in an explosion...
10) Thirst
Author
Publisher
Nancy Paulsen Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
700L
Language
English
Description
"A heroic girl in Mumbai fights for her belief that water should be for everyone"--
Author
Publisher
ProQuest LLC
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Amid a global water security crisis exacerbated by climate change and biodiversity loss, this research explores how nature-based solutions (NBS) provide elegant solutions for recentering nature in 21st century global water policy. This research posits that the NBS concept is not new. It has been implemented by Indigenous Peoples as a form of water policy through Indigenous and Traditional Ecological Knowledge (ITEK) for centuries. NBS have only recently...
Author
Series
Publisher
Cherry Lake Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Lexile measure
780L
Language
English
Description
"Readers will learn about the importance, limited availability, and wide-spread pollution of clean water through colorful and clear graphics, such as maps, charts, and infographics. Book also includes a glossary, index, suggested books and websites, and abibliography"--
18) Handbook of land and water grabs in Africa: foreign direct investment and food and water security
Publisher
Routledge
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Author
Publisher
National Academies Press
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"Scientific evidence shows that most glaciers in South Asia's Hindu Kush Himalayan region are retreating, but the consequences for the region's water supply are unclear, this report finds. The Hindu Kush Himalayan region is the location of several of Asia's great river systems, which provide water for drinking, irrigation, and other uses for about 1.5 billion people. Recent studies show that at lower elevations, glacial retreat is unlikely to cause...
