Water Quality in the Middle Great Lakes
Author | : David C. Rockwell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Water quality |
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Author | : David C. Rockwell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Water quality |
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Author | : Peter Annin |
Publisher | : Island Press |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2009-08-25 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 159726637X |
The Great Lakes are the largest collection of fresh surface water on earth, and more than 40 million Americans and Canadians live in their basin. Will we divert water from the Great Lakes, causing them to end up like Central Asia's Aral Sea, which has lost 90 percent of its surface area and 75 percent of its volume since 1960? Or will we come to see that unregulated water withdrawals are ultimately catastrophic? Peter Annin writes a fast-paced account of the people and stories behind these upcoming battles. Destined to be the definitive story for the general public as well as policymakers, The Great Lakes Water Wars is a balanced, comprehensive look behind the scenes at the conflicts and compromises that are the past-and future-of this unique resource.
Author | : Dan Egan |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2017-03-07 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0393246442 |
New York Times Bestseller Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize Winner of the J. Anthony Lukas Award "Nimbly splices together history, science, reporting and personal experiences into a taut and cautiously hopeful narrative.… Egan’s book is bursting with life (and yes, death)." —Robert Moor, New York Times Book Review The Great Lakes—Erie, Huron, Michigan, Ontario, and Superior—hold 20 percent of the world’s supply of surface fresh water and provide sustenance, work, and recreation for tens of millions of Americans. But they are under threat as never before, and their problems are spreading across the continent. The Death and Life of the Great Lakes is prize-winning reporter Dan Egan’s compulsively readable portrait of an ecological catastrophe happening right before our eyes, blending the epic story of the lakes with an examination of the perils they face and the ways we can restore and preserve them for generations to come.
Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Natural Resources and Power Subcommittee |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1118 |
Release | : 1966 |
Genre | : Water |
ISBN | : |
Author | : United States. Congress. House Government Operations |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1122 |
Release | : 1966 |
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Author | : United States. Great Lakes Basin Commission |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : Great Lakes Region (North America) |
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Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works and Transportation. Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 640 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Water |
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Author | : Max M. Tilzer |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 699 |
Release | : 2012-12-06 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 3642840779 |
The vast majority of the world's lakes are small in size and short lived in geological terms. Only 253 of the thousands of lakes on this planet have surface areas larger than 500 square kilometers. At first sight, this statistic would seem to indicate that large lakes are relatively unimportant on a global scale; in fact, however, large lakes contain the bulk of the liquid surface freshwater of the earth. Just Lake Baikal and the Laurentian Great Lakes alone contain more than 38% of the world's total liquid freshwater. Thus, the large lakes of the world accentuate an important feature of the earth's freshwater reserves-its extremely irregular distribution. The energy crisis of the 1970s and 1980s made us aware of the fact that we live on a spaceship with finite, that is, exhaustible resources. On the other hand, the energy crisis led to an overemphasis on all the issues concerning energy supply and all the problems connected with producing new energy. The energy crisis also led us to ignore strong evidence suggesting that water of appropriate quality to be used as a resouce will be used up more quickly than energy will. Although in principle water is a "renewable resource," the world's water reserves are diminishing in two fashions, the effects of which are multiplicative: enhanced consumption and accelerated degradation of quality.