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Author | : Maggie Black |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 65 |
Release | : 2016-09 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0520292030 |
"Water may soon be one of our most valuable commodities. The growing demands made on a finite resource by an increasing number of people adopting urban lifestyles and western diets, coupled with a changing and less predictable climate, are putting pressure on the planet's freshwater supply as never before. By 2025, four billion people may be living in conditions of water stress. And even where water is plentiful, the poor are unlikely to have ready access to a safe, cheap supply. The new edition of this timely atlas analyzes the latest thinking and emerging issues. Completely updated, it maps the competing claims on limited water resources--made by farmers, industrialists, and householders--and investigates the nature of the resource, its uses and abuses, as well as the vexed question of how it can be managed equitably"-- Page 4 of the cover.
Author | : Edward A. Fernald |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : History |
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Author | : Maggie Black |
Publisher | : Earthscan Atlas |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Groundwater |
ISBN | : 9781844078271 |
The planet's finite supply of fresh water is under such pressure that soon it may be the most valuable commodity on earth. The new edition of this crucial and timely atlas shows water distribution worldwide, and reflects the latest thinking and emerging issues. With updated data throughout, the atlas covers a wide range of topics to map how our limited water resources are shared and used around the world, as well as the challenges posed to their management by today's unprecedented population and environmental pressures. It includes completely new maps on climate change, water for tourism, dam construction, biodiversity, and water management, commerce and legislation. With snapshots of especially vulnerable areas and major polluters as well the global picture, this is a unique resource for general readers as well as policy makers and students. Divided into six parts, each prefaced with an introductory essay, the atlas investigates the nature of the resource itself, through its uses in all kinds of human activity, to the vexed questions of how to manage water well and avoid the threat of 'water conflicts'.
Author | : Lawrence E. Estaville |
Publisher | : Texas A&M University Press |
Total Pages | : 166 |
Release | : 2008-06-05 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9781603440202 |
Rainfall, hurricanes, rivers, reservoirs, springs, lakes, aquifers, wetlands, floodplains, water parks, irrigation, wells—the list of water-related topics in Texas is long and critical to the state’s economic and political future. Texas Water Atlas provides the first comprehensive reference for water-related topics in Texas. Geographers Lawrence E. Estaville and Richard A. Earl have compiled a host of data to visually convey vital information on Texas’ climate, surface and groundwater, water uses and hazards, water quantity and quality, recreation, future supply projections, and the environmental management of its water resources. In addition to more than 150 color maps, the book includes brief introductions to each chapter and a Texas water timeline that traces the state’s water events since European settlement. An excellent resource for teachers, students, and policy makers, the atlas promises also to be an invaluable tool for conservation professionals and the general public. To learn more about The Meadows Center for Water and the Environment, sponsors of this book's series, please click here.
Author | : Robin T. Clarke |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 127 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9781565849181 |
Addresses a wide range of topics on water use, re-use and control, and offers details on water distribution worldwide and profiles of vulnerable regions, giving a global picture of the water industry.
Author | : Obi Kaufmann |
Publisher | : Heyday Books |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9781597144698 |
Obi Kaufmann, author of the best-selling California Field Atlas, turns his artful yet analytical attention to the Golden State's single most complex and controversial resource: water. In this new book, full-color maps unravel the braided knot of California's water infrastructure and ecosystems, exposing a history of unlimited growth in spite of finite natural resources--a history that has led to its current precarious circumstances. Yet this built world depends upon the biosphere, and in The State of Water Kaufmann argues that environmental conservation and restoration efforts are necessary not only for ethical reasons but also as a matter of human survival. Offering nine perspectives to illustrate the most pressing challenges facing California's water infrastructure, from dams to species revitalization, Kaufmann reveals pragmatic yet inspiring solutions to how water in the West can continue to support agriculture, municipalities, and the environment. Interspersed throughout with trail paintings of animals that might yet survive under a caring and careful water ethic, Kaufmann shows how California can usher in a new era of responsible water conservation, and--perhaps most importantly--how we may do so together.
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Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 2 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Water resources development |
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Author | : Edward A. Fernald |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Hydrology |
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Author | : Robin Clarke |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 140 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : |
Covering the global picture, this book provides an overview of our water consumption, as well as highlighting the scarcity and quality of our most critical resource in vulnerable regions such as California, the Middle East and India.
Author | : Lawrence E. Estaville |
Publisher | : Texas A&M University Press |
Total Pages | : 148 |
Release | : 2008-06-05 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 1603440208 |
Rainfall, hurricanes, rivers, reservoirs, springs, lakes, aquifers, wetlands, floodplains, water parks, irrigation, wells—the list of water-related topics in Texas is long and critical to the state’s economic and political future. Texas Water Atlas provides the first comprehensive reference for water-related topics in Texas. Geographers Lawrence E. Estaville and Richard A. Earl have compiled a host of data to visually convey vital information on Texas’ climate, surface and groundwater, water uses and hazards, water quantity and quality, recreation, future supply projections, and the environmental management of its water resources. In addition to more than 150 color maps, the book includes brief introductions to each chapter and a Texas water timeline that traces the state’s water events since European settlement. An excellent resource for teachers, students, and policy makers, the atlas promises also to be an invaluable tool for conservation professionals and the general public. To learn more about The Meadows Center for Water and the Environment, sponsors of this book's series, please click here.