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Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
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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.
2) Water can be
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Language
English
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"This picture book poetically explores the many things water can be--from home maker and ship breaker to cloud fluffer and fire snuffer. Backmatter provides additional explanations."--
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Language
English
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"The water coming out of your kitchen tap is four billion years old and might well have been sipped by a Tyrannosaurus rex. Rather than only three states of water--liquid, ice, and vapor--there is a fourth, "molecular water," fused into rock 400 miles deep in the Earth, and that's where most of the planet's water is found. Unlike most precious resources, water cannot be used up; it can always be made clean enough again to drink--indeed, water can...
4) Hey, water!
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Language
English
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Description
"Splashy illustrations and simple text explore water in its many shapes and forms"--
Publisher
Oscilloscope Pictures
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
The world water crisis has rapidly become one of the most topical issues of our day as our global resources dwindle. Tensions continue to mount between politics, the environment and human rights in the battle for the future of our planet's supply of drinking water. Irena Salina's award-winning documentary FLOW (For love of water) investigates this crisis at the global and human scale like never before, begging the question: Can anyone really own water?...
9) Watermark
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Following their success with Manufactured Landscapes, photographer Edward Burtynsky and filmmaker Jennifer Baichwal reunite to explore the ways in which humanity has shaped, manipulated and depleted one of its most vital and compromised resources: water.
11) Water's children
Author
Publisher
Pajama Press
Pub. Date
[2017].
Language
English
Description
"Around the world, water appears in many forms: a snowflake, an oasis, the stream from a faucet, monsoon rain. In Water's Children, twelve young people describe what water means to them. The descriptions are as varied as the landscapes the speakers inhabit, but each of them also expresses, in their own language, a universal truth: Water is life."--Amazon.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
"Water Always Wins transports us around the world and back through time, exposing us to better ways to live with water. Gies introduces us to water experts the world over as they search for clues to water's past and present, using close observation, historical research, ancient animal and human wisdom, and cutting-edge science to effect change. We become more aware of the ways in which modern civilizations speed water away, erasing its slow phases...
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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...
20) City of water
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Series
Publisher
Groundwood Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"This narrative nonfiction book explores the water system as it affects cities. The narrative tracks our water from its source, moving through pipes and treatment facilities into our taps and fire hydrants, our pools and toilets, then out through storm and sewer systems. It takes a fun, engaged approach that emphasizes the experience of kids and how they relate to water. The underlying message is one of conservation and the importance of equitable...
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