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ProductCadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water, Revised Edition
DescriptionNewly updated, this timely history of the struggle to discover and control water in the American West is a tale of rivers diverted and damned, political corruption and intrigue, billion-dollar battles over water rights, and economic and ecological disaster. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Prize. The definitive history of water resources ...
RatingCustomer rating is 4 of 5
TypePaperback
Lowest collectible price$16.50
Lowest new price$8.25
Lowest used price$5.91
ManufacturerPenguin (Non-Classics)
Categories Textbook Buyback   Environmental Science   Rivers   Water Supply & Land Use   Paperback   Printed Books  
ProductWhen the Rivers Run Dry: Water--The Defining Crisis of the Twenty-First Century
Description
It was together with the Colorado River this engineers first learned to control excellent rivers. But now the Colorado’s reservoirs are two-thirds empty. Excellent rivers like the Indus and the Nile, the Rio Grande and the Yellow River are running on empty. And economists say this by 2025, water scarcity will cut global food production by extra than the existing ...
RatingCustomer rating is 4 of 5
TypeHardcover
Lowest new price$13.38
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ManufacturerBeacon Press
Categories Textbook Buyback   Water Supply & Land Use   Hardcover   Printed Books   Amazon.com: Non-Seasonal Buyback  
ProductThe New Atlantis
Description
We sailed from Peru, (where we had continued for the space of one whole year) for China and Japan, by the South Sea; taking together with us victuals for twelve months; and had good winds from the east, though soft and weak, for five months space, and extra. But the wind came concerning, and settled in the west for many days, so as we could do little or no ...
RatingCustomer rating is 4 of 5
TypeKindle Edition
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Categories Rivers   Water Supply & Land Use   Kindle Books   Water Supply  
ProductWater Wars: Privatization, Pollution, and Profit
DescriptionVandana Shiva, "the world's much prominent radical scientist" (the Guardian), exposes yet another corporate maneuver to transform a critical world resource into a profitable commodity. Utilizing the global water trade as a lens, she highlights the destruction of the earth and the disenfranchisement of the world's poor as they lose their right to a ...
RatingCustomer rating is 3 of 5
TypePaperback
Lowest new price$7.98
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ManufacturerSouth End Press
Categories Textbook Buyback   Environmental Science   Water Supply & Land Use   Paperback   Printed Books   Amazon.com: Non-Seasonal Buyback   Real Estate   United States   Environmental Studies   Gender Studies  
ProductRainwater Harvesting for Drylands (Vol. 1): Guiding Principles to Welcome Rain into Your Life And Landscape
DescriptionRainwater Harvesting for Drylands: Guiding Principles to Welcome Rain into Your Life and Landscape is the first volume of three-volume guide on how to conceptualize, design, and implement sustainable water-harvesting systems for your home, landscape, and community. This book enables you to assess your on-site resources, provides you a different array ...
RatingCustomer rating is 5 of 5
TypePaperback
Lowest new price$15.42
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ManufacturerRainsource Press
Categories Textbook Buyback   Ecology   Water Supply & Land Use   Paperback   Printed Books   Amazon.com: Non-Seasonal Buyback  
ProductBlue Covenant: The Global Water Crisis and the Coming Battle for the Right to Water
DescriptionA passionate call to action from one of the leading voices in the global struggle for universal access to the earth's much vital element—a sequel to the acclaimed Blue Gold.

"Life requires access to clean water; to deny the right to water is to deny the right to life."—from the introduction to Blue ...
RatingCustomer rating is 4 of 5
TypeHardcover
Lowest new price$9.98
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ManufacturerNew Press
Categories Textbook Buyback   Public Policy   Water Supply & Land Use   Hardcover   Printed Books  
ProductWater: The Fate of Our Most Precious Resource
DescriptionIn his prize-winning book WATER, Marq de Villiers offers an eye-opening account of how we are utilizing, misusing, and abusing our planet's much vital resource. Encompassing ecological, historical, and cultural perspectives, de Villiers reports from hot spots as different as China, Las Vegas, and the Middle East, where swelling populations and ...
RatingCustomer rating is 4 of 5
TypePaperback
Lowest collectible price$16.00
Lowest new price$5.00
Lowest used price$3.50
ManufacturerMariner Books
Categories Textbook Buyback   Fish & Sharks   Water Supply & Land Use   Paperback   Printed Books   Amazon.com: Non-Seasonal Buyback  
ProductNorth Carolina Waterfalls: A Hiking and Photography Guide
DescriptionSince its original publication in 1994, North Carolina Waterfalls has been the much comprehensive guide available to one of the prime natural features of the Tar Heel State. This new edition consists of over 600 waterfalls, together with detailed directions and trail and beauty ratings for the key waterfalls on public land. For the first time, ...
RatingCustomer rating is 5 of 5
TypePaperback
Lowest new price$12.89
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ManufacturerJohn F. Blair Publisher
Categories Textbook Buyback   Reference   Water Supply & Land Use   Ecotourism   Paperback   Printed Books  
ProductRIVERS OF EMPIRE
DescriptionWhen Henry David Thoreau went for his daily walk, he would consult his instincts on which direction to follow. Extra often than not his inner compass pointed west or southwest. "The future lies this way to me," he explained, "and the earth seems extra unexhausted and richer on this side." In his own imaginative way, Thoreau was imitating the ...
RatingCustomer rating is 4 of 5
TypeHardcover
Lowest collectible price$11.00
Lowest new price$12.00
Lowest used price$7.99
ManufacturerPantheon
Categories Textbook Buyback   Water Supply & Land Use   Hardcover   Bargain Books   Printed Books  
ProductRainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond (Vol. 2): Water-Harvesting Earthworks
DescriptionTurn water scarcity into water abundance!

Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands: Guiding Principles to Welcome Rain into Your Life and Landscape is the first volume of three-volume guide on how to conceptualize, design, and implement sustainable water-harvesting systems for your home, landscape, and community. This book enables you to assess ...

RatingCustomer rating is 5 of 5
TypePaperback
Lowest new price$20.66
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ManufacturerRainsource Press
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