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"Recounts the gripping story of Flint's poisoned water through the people who caused it, suffered from it, and exposed it. It is a chronicle of one town, but could also be about any American city, all made precarious by the neglect of infrastructure"--
"When the people of Flint, Michigan, turned on their faucets in April 2014, the water pouring out was poisoned with lead and other toxins. Through a series of disastrous decisions, the state government...
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PCPLS - Kouts Public Library - Adult Nonfiction
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"In this richly narrated and authoritative work--combining environmental and societal history--Giulio Boccaletti begins with the earliest civilizations of sedentary farmers on the banks of the Nile, the Tigris, and the Euphrates. He describes how these societies were made possible by sea level changes from the last glacial melt. He examines how this sedentary farming led to irrigation and multiple cropping, which, in turn, resulted in an explosion...
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Duke professor James Salzman shows how drinking water highlights the most pressing issues of our time--from globalization and social justice to terrorism and climate change--and how humans have been wrestling with these problems for centuries.
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627.52 ALLEN
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Keep your lawn and garden lush without wasting resources by capturing and recycling the greywater that drains from your sink, shower, and washing machine. This accessible and detailed guide walks you through each step of planning for and installing a variety of greywater systems, including laundry-to-landscape and branched drain gravity-fed.
6) Rural Water Supply and Sanitation: Evaluation and Feasibility of WASH Development Projects in Kenya
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"This publication is expected to provide insights into the present water supply and sanitation in rural Kenya by identifying potential cost-effective sources of community water supply systems; determining the current water demand and assessing the capacity of existing water supplies; recommending possible and viable solutions to community sanitation problems; identifying existing structures for water development in rural communities and areas of collaboration...
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The Water Safety Plan (WSP) is about protecting water quality from catchment to the tap. Promoted by the World Health Organization, WSP has changed the way water supply systems are managed. This report documents the pilot application of the guidance note for mainstreaming WSP in water projects supported by the Asian Development Bank as piloted in the Chongqing Municipality in the People's Republic of China. The guidance note seeks to promote systematic...
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Este sistema individual para el tratamiento de las aguas residuales
producidas por las familias que habitan en zonas residenciales poco
pobladas, en ciudades donde no existe acceso a otros sistemas
colectivos de tratamiento, también se utiliza para el tratamiento de
efluentes provenientes de instituciones como escuelas y hospitales de
pequeñas comunidades.
Es un sistema de tratamiento apropiado para lugares que cuentan
con abastecimiento domiciliar...
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This book is an effort to understand the challenges faced by Africa in the water and energy sector. This study made an attempt to understand what it really means by naturalization of the nation and nationalization of nature for Africa. It did so by looking at repetition of trans boundary water conflicts within a state and its impact on energy security and economic development. T h e s e circumstances, the book infers might have been responsible for...
10) Servicios ecosistémicos y gobernanza del agua, quebrada El Cedro, Localidad de Usaquén Bogotá, D. C
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Los servicios ecosistémicos o ambientales son entendidos como beneficios usados, requeridos y disfrutados por los seres humanos, como sustento básico de la salud y calidad de vida. Con base en la puesta en marcha de la Política Nacional para la Gestión Integral de la Biodiversidad y sus Servicios Ecosistémicos (PNGIBSE) (2016), estudiamos la situación del recurso hídrico de agua dulce y sus servicios ecosistémicos en la microcuenca de la quebrada...
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The climate changes experts predict a drying of 20 to 30 % of the water available in the Great Lakes area in the next century, a forecast already in progress. Environment Canada predicts a 24% flow decreasing.
The levels of Lake Huron and Lake Michigan are already two feet lower than normal. Over 18,000 km of shoreline and more than 1,000 sq km of richly diverse wetlands, such as those of Georgian Bay and Lake St.
Pierre, are in a deplorable...
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Israel relies for its survival on its lucrative arms trade and American military support. Meanwhile, the Palestinians suffer poverty and destitution as an occupied nation. Indeed, without vast international financial support the Palestinians would face starvation.
Any solution is impossible while Israel pursues an aggressive program of settlement expansion and ethnic cleansing. The author draws extensively on Jewish sources to prove Israel is on the...
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Design a rainwater harvesting system for any home in any climate. Water is a crucial resource increasingly under stress. Yet rainfall, even in arid climates, can make up a sizable portion of any home, acreage, or farm's water requirements if harvested and utilized with care. The key is appropriate planning and high-quality site- and climate-specific design.
Essential Rainwater Harvesting is a comprehensive manual for designing, building, and maintaining...
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"Barlow draws on her extensive experience and insight to lay out a set of key principles that show the way forward to what she calls a "water-secure and water-just world." Not only does she reveal the powerful players even now impeding the recognition of the human right to water, she argues that water must not become a commodity to be bought and sold on the open market. Focusing on solutions, she includes stories of struggle and resistance from marginalized...
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The James River is the centerpiece of Richmond, but by the mid-twentieth century it had been abused and neglected. Eagles and sturgeon had nearly disappeared, water-powered industry was abandoning it and the river was a sewer. Today, the river draws visitors to its wooded shorelines, restored canal and feisty rapids. At the local level, this transformation was the result of citizen action, public-private partnerships, difficult decisions by governmental...
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El derecho al agua potable y el servicio público de acueducto necesitan criterios para analizar su constitucionalización, mediante la jurisprudencia. De ahí que este libro se enfoque en cinco de ellos, mediante estadísticas, consultas realizadas a derechos de petición y estudio doctrinal: 1) el enfoque del juez constitucional: según el precedente ¿en el área bajo estudio prima el derecho sustancial o existe mayor discrecionalidad del Estado,...
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What are You?Aside from being an Amazing Being, physically, you're 60 to 70 percent water. Your tissues and organs are predominately made of water. Your brain is 75 to 90 percent water, your heart is 75 percent water, your blood is 90 percent water, your eyes are 90 percent water, your lungs are 85 percent water, your skin is 72 percent water, your muscles and kidneys are 75 to 80 percent water. Your beautiful, solid bones are 30 percent water. Your...
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Improving the efficiency of water utilities and reducing water losses are becoming top priorities in Asia, with its often-limited water resources and rapidly increasing urban population. This publication provides an up-to-date introduction to the subject matter, highlights the complexity of managing non-revenue water (NRW), offers guidance on NRW assessment, and recommends appropriate performance indicators. It is, to a large extent, based on the...
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The Middle East faces a crisis of the most fundamental kind. Water is scarce. Resources have been depleted and environmental factors make solutions difficult to come by. The Fanack Water Files, presented by Fanack, provide in-depth, comprehensive, and balanced information on the state of water resources in twenty countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. The Fanack Water Files provide high-quality facts and figures on a range of...
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L'approvisionnement en eau d'un particulier ou d'une collectivité implique au préalable la découverte d'une ressource en eau de qualité, son captage, son transport, son traitement (même pour les eaux de qualité) et sa distribution collective et individuelle (réseau public, plomberie domestique), avant sa consommation au sens large du terme...
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