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"The Race to Protect Our Most Important Natural Resource: Water," is an investigative view into the most pressing threats against modern society's most precious natural resource, water, and how to mitigate them.
This book is NOT about taking shorter showers, and it is NOT about selling you on water filters... It is about knowing the current score related to the very essence of life, and helping you become more aware how you can make a positive impact.
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In the developed world, if you want a drink of water you just turn on a tap or open a bottle. But for millions of families worldwide, finding clean water is a daily challenge, and kids are often the ones responsible for carrying water to their homes. Every Last Drop looks at why the world's water resources are at risk and how communities around the world are finding innovative ways to quench their thirst and water their crops. Maybe you're not ready...
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"New York Times bestselling author Seth M. Siegel shows how our drinking water got contaminated, what it may be doing to us, and what we must do to make it safe. If you thought America's drinking water problems started and ended in Flint, Michigan, think again. From big cities and suburbs to the rural heartland, chemicals linked to cancer, heart disease, obesity, birth defects, and lowered IQ routinely spill from our taps. Many are to blame: the EPA,...
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Although a view of Earth from space makes it appear we have plenty of water, less than 3 percent is freshwater. Climate change also threatens the small percentage of healthy freshwater humans worldwide can access. However, this exciting title will introduce aspiring engineers to the innovative ways technology is tackling this problem! This explanatory and empowering text describes key ideas about ways technology is cleaning and conserving water supplies-from...
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Every citizen of a city needs clean water to live, making a city's water system one of the most important parts of its infrastructure. Supplying Water for a City examines each step in this process, including ways in which new improvements will help keep water supplies safe and reliable.
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[2023]
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"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...
11) Poisoned water: how the citizens of Flint, Michigan, fought for their lives and warned the nation
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2020.
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Reveals the true story of Flint, Michigan's poisoned water supply, describing how the water crisis unfolded in 2014 and the history of racism and segregation that led up to it.
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"The dramatic story of the signature environmental disaster of our time and an inspiring tale of scientific resistance by a relentless physician who stood up to power. Flint was already a troubled city in 2014 when the state of Michigan--in the name of austerity--shifted the source of its water supply from Lake Huron to the Flint River. Soon after, citizens began complaining about the water that flowed from their taps--but officials rebuffed them,...
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