The Last Oasis

Author : Sandra Postel
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134161654
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Last Oasis written by Sandra Postel and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-07-16 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For decades now we have wasted and mismanaged the world?s water supplies. Today, 27 countries are short of water, a quarter of the world?s population has no safe water, 46 per cent have no proper sanitation and each year four million children die of water-borne diseases. As most of the world?s major river systems cross several national boundaries, the scope disputes and the threat to international security is becoming more and more real. In The Last Oasis, Sandra Postel examines the economic, ecological and political factors affecting fresh water supply. She confronts the issues of mismanagement and profligacy and analyses and dangers of confrontation, both between nations and between rural and urban users. She also emphasises that the technology and know-how for effective water husbandry does exist. With methods already in use, farmers could cut their demand for water by 40-90 per cent, and cities by one-third, without sacrificing economic output or quality of life. Investing in water efficiency, recycling and conservation help meet rising demands and stave off disaster. But the priority is a common recognition of the gravity of the position, and with that a widespread push for institutions to manage sustainable use of water.

Author : Sandra Postel
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134161581
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Last Oasis written by Sandra Postel and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-07-16 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For decades now we have wasted and mismanaged the world?s water supplies. Today, 27 countries are short of water, a quarter of the world?s population has no safe water, 46 per cent have no proper sanitation and each year four million children die of water-borne diseases. As most of the world?s major river systems cross several national boundaries, the scope disputes and the threat to international security is becoming more and more real. In The Last Oasis, Sandra Postel examines the economic, ecological and political factors affecting fresh water supply. She confronts the issues of mismanagement and profligacy and analyses and dangers of confrontation, both between nations and between rural and urban users. She also emphasises that the technology and know-how for effective water husbandry does exist. With methods already in use, farmers could cut their demand for water by 40-90 per cent, and cities by one-third, without sacrificing economic output or quality of life. Investing in water efficiency, recycling and conservation help meet rising demands and stave off disaster. But the priority is a common recognition of the gravity of the position, and with that a widespread push for institutions to manage sustainable use of water.

Author : Sue Pace
Publisher : Delacorte Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 9780385308816
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Last Oasis written by Sue Pace and published by Delacorte Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 1993 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a future world of shortages and environmental decay, two young people set off through unknown dangers toward a better life in Idaho.

Author : Ted Edwards
Publisher : Salem House Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beyond the Last Oasis written by Ted Edwards and published by Salem House Publishers. This book was released on 1985 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Guy Rundle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780522877724
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Between the Last Oasis and the Next Mirage written by Guy Rundle and published by . This book was released on 2021-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With sharp wit and a discerning eye, political commentator Guy Rundle enlightens and entertains, drawing back the curtain on the iconic moments in Australian politics of the 2010sFrom the coal blockade frontline of the Liverpool Plains to Hobart's Cat and Fiddle arcade, from being on the road with last chance Malcolm Turnbull to the fossil fuel fantasies of Adaniland in the north, Guy Rundle gives a first-hand history of Australia in the 2010s, after the brief and hopeful haha insurgency of the Rudd-Gillard-Rudd era and the descent of another decade of reaction. Through multiple elections, rubbing shoulders with the major players and upstart independents, Rundle describes a country changing and fracturing as the global wave of populism swept across conventional politics, and the culture wars solidified. He goes into battle, both against a corrupt, cynical and nihilistic right, and an increasingly elitist and fantastical progressivism. And he steps back into the past, looking at how we got to here, in memoirs and analyses of the shifting personal, cultural and political faultlines of the past half century.

Author : Geronimo Stilton
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1338687190
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Last Resort Oasis (Geronimo Stilton #77) written by Geronimo Stilton and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2021-03-02 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When you're with Geronimo Stilton, it's always a fabumouse adventure! THE LAST RESORT OASIS It was a cold winter in New Mouse City when my grandfather William Shortpaws decided to take the whole family on vacation! We all climbed aboard the cheese-colored camper and set off on a relaxing retreat. But we took a wrong turn and somehow I found myself trying to round up a caravan of spitting camels. Could I get them all back to The Last Resort Oasis?

Author : Katya de Becerra
Publisher : Imprint
ISBN 13 : 1250220858
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Oasis written by Katya de Becerra and published by Imprint. This book was released on 2020-01-07 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this young adult thriller for fans of Lost and The Twilight Zone, a group of teens are saved when they come across a mysterious oasis. But who will save them from the oasis? Alif had exciting summer plans: working on her father’s archeological dig site in the desert with four close friends ... and a very cute research assistant. Then the sandstorm hit. Their camp wiped away, Alif and the others find themselves lost on the sands, seemingly doomed ... until they find the oasis. It has everything they need: food, water, and shade—and mysterious ruins that hide a deadly secret. As reality begins to shift around them, they question what’s real and what’s a mirage. The answers turn Alif and her friends against each other, and they begin to wonder if they’ve truly been saved. And while it was easy to walk into the oasis, it may be impossible to leave ... An Imprint Book “Will stick to readers’ skin long after the final page is turned.” —Booklist (starred review) “de Becerra successfully builds a fraught tension throughout the book that mirrors the characters’ feelings as reality leaves them behind . . . well worth the payoff.” —The Bulletin

Author : Sandra Postel
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393317442
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Last Oasis written by Sandra Postel and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1997 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Postel, vice president for research of the Worldwatch Institute, examines the worldwide limits--ecological, economic, and political--of water, and discloses existing methods to make water go further, decreasing the likelihood of both scarcity and conflict. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Paul Sussman
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0802145078
Total Pages : 652 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Hidden Oasis written by Paul Sussman and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2010-09-14 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the help of her dead sister's friend, Flin Brodie, mountain climber Freya Hannen sets out in search of the legendary lost oasis of Zerzura in Egypt, which supposedly houses a mythic stone, and could help Freya find out the truth behind her sister Alex's mysterious death. By the author of The Last Secret of the Temple. Reprint.

Author : Health Beacon
Publisher : HC Pro, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1601467141
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book OASIS-C Guidance Manual written by Health Beacon and published by HC Pro, Inc.. This book was released on 2009 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: