Water First

Author : Juliet Christian-Smith
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199939381
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Twenty-First Century U.S. Water Policy written by Juliet Christian-Smith and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-07-02 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is zero hour for a new US water policy! At a time when many countries are adopting new national approaches to water management, the United States still has no cohesive federal policy, and water-related authorities are dispersed across more than 30 agencies. Here, at last, is a vision for what we as a nation need to do to manage our most vital resource. In this book, leading thinkers at world-class water research institution the Pacific Institute present clear and readable analysis and recommendations for a new federal water policy to confront our national and global challenges at a critical time. What exactly is at stake? In the 21st century, pressures on water resources in the United States are growing and conflicts among water users are worsening. Communities continue to struggle to meet water quality standards and to ensure that safe drinking water is available for all. And new challenges are arising as climate change and extreme events worsen, new water quality threats materialize, and financial constraints grow. Yet the United States has not stepped up with adequate leadership to address these problems. The inability of national policymakers to safeguard our water makes the United States increasingly vulnerable to serious disruptions of something most of us take for granted: affordable, reliable, and safe water. This book provides an independent assessment of water issues and water management in the United States, addressing emerging and persistent water challenges from the perspectives of science, public policy, environmental justice, economics, and law. With fascinating case studies and first-person accounts of what helps and hinders good water management, this is a clear-eyed look at what we need for a 21st century U.S. water policy.

Author : Ron Phillips
Publisher : TSI International Ltd
ISBN 13 : 0473020009
Total Pages : 131 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gem of the First Water written by Ron Phillips and published by TSI International Ltd. This book was released on 1993 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An angry teenager is transported to the Land of Confusion, where he confronts negative creatures such as Blame, Rage-on and the Martini Monster, before learning how to create his own happiness.

Author : United States. Interstate Commerce Commission
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Uniform System of Accounts for Carriers by Water, First Revised Issue, Effective on January 1, 1942 written by United States. Interstate Commerce Commission and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Gary Dop
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781597094221
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Father, Child, Water written by Gary Dop and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A parade of characters and voices, these poems stumble along the playful and pained pathways of our days. This is a book of honest feeling. This book believes in the sacred exchange of a smile. Father, Child, Water wants to make you laugh, wants to surprise you with sorrow, and certainly wants to remind you that you are alive.

Author : Avi Brisman
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137529865
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Water, Crime and Security in the Twenty-First Century written by Avi Brisman and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-04-03 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Water, Crime and Security in the Twenty-First Century represents criminology’s first book-length contribution to the study of water and water-related crimes, harms and security. The chapters cover topics such as: water pollution, access to fresh water in the Global North and Global South, water and climate change, the commodification of water and privatization, water security and pacification, and activism and resistance surrounding issues of access and pollution. With examples ranging from Rio de Janeiro to Flint, Michigan to the Thames River, this original study offers a comprehensive criminological overview of the contemporary and historical relationship between water and crime. Coinciding with the International Decade for Action, “Water for Sustainable Development,” 2018–2028, this timely volume will be of particular relevance to students and scholars of green criminology, as well as those interested in critical geography, environmental anthropology, environmental sociology, political ecology, and the study of corporate crime and state crime.

Author : Rebecca Olien
Publisher : Capstone
ISBN 13 : 9780736851824
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Water Cycle written by Rebecca Olien and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2005 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explains the stages of the water cycle and how the water cycle impacts the earth's water supply. Includes an activity.

Author : Adrienne Berard
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 0807033537
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Water Tossing Boulders written by Adrienne Berard and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2016-10-18 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A generation before Brown v. Board of Education struck down America’s “separate but equal” doctrine, one Chinese family and an eccentric Mississippi lawyer fought for desegregation in one of the greatest legal battles never told On September 15, 1924, Martha Lum and her older sister Berda were barred from attending middle school in Rosedale, Mississippi. The girls were Chinese American and considered by the school to be “colored”; the school was for whites. This event would lead to the first US Supreme Court case to challenge the constitutionality of racial segregation in Southern public schools, an astonishing thirty years before the landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision. Unearthing one of the greatest stories never told, journalist Adrienne Berard recounts how three unlikely heroes sought to shape a new South. A poor immigrant from southern China, Jeu Gong Lum came to America with the hope of a better future for his family. Unassuming yet boldly determined, his daughter Martha would inhabit that future and become the face of the fight to integrate schools. Earl Brewer, their lawyer and staunch ally, was once a millionaire and governor of Mississippi. When he took the family’s case, Brewer was both bankrupt and a political pariah—a man with nothing left to lose. By confronting the “separate but equal” doctrine, the Lum family fought for the right to educate Chinese Americans in the white schools of the Jim Crow South. Using their groundbreaking lawsuit as a compass, Berard depicts the complicated condition of racial otherness in rural Southern society. In a sweeping narrative that is both epic and intimate, Water Tossing Boulders evokes a time and place previously defined by black and white, a time and place that, until now, has never been viewed through the eyes of a forgotten third race. In vivid prose, the Mississippi Delta, an empire of cotton and a bastion of slavery, is reimagined to reveal the experiences of a lost immigrant community. Through extensive research in historical documents and family correspondence, Berard illuminates a vital, forgotten chapter of America’s past and uncovers the powerful journey of an oppressed people in their struggle for equality.

Author : United States. Interstate Commerce Commission
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Form of General Balance Sheet Statement for Carriers by Water. First Issue Effective on January 1, 1913 written by United States. Interstate Commerce Commission and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Luke Whitmore
Publisher : University of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520298020
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mountain, Water, Rock, God written by Luke Whitmore and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2018-11-27 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. In Mountain, Water, Rock, God, Luke Whitmore situates the disastrous flooding that fell on the Hindu Himalayan shrine of Kedarnath in 2013 within a broader religious and ecological context. Whitmore explores the longer story of this powerful realm of the Hindu god Shiva through a holistic theoretical perspective that integrates phenomenological and systems-based approaches to the study of religion, pilgrimage, place, and ecology. He argues that close attention to places of religious significance offers a model for thinking through connections between ritual, narrative, climate destabilization, tourism, development, and disaster, and he shows how these critical components of human life in the twenty-first century intersect in the human experience of place.

Author : I. A. Shiklomanov
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521617222
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book World Water Resources at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century written by I. A. Shiklomanov and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern assessment of the state of the world's water resources for researchers and policy-makers.