When the Rivers Run Dry: Journeys Into the Heart of the World's Water Crisis
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
1552637417
ISBN 13
9781552637418
Category
330-339 Economics
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Publication Year
2006
Publisher
Pages
400
Subject
Water-supply. Water-supply -- Economic aspects. Water-supply -- Political aspects.
Biblio Notes
Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Pearce, Fred.
When the rivers run dry.
Toronto : Key Porter, ©2006
(OCoLC)894931817
Material Type: Biography
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Fred Pearce
ISBN: 1552637417 9781552637418
OCLC Number: 62129965
Notes: Includes index.
Description: 400 p. : maps ; 23 cm.
Contents: 1. The human sponge --
2. North America : crossing the Rio Grande --
3. Riding the water cycle --
4. Pakistan : the unhappy valley --
5. India : a colossal anarchy --
6. Halliburton's job for Qaddafi --
7. The world's largest mass poisoning --
8. Mirages --
9. The common wealth --
10. Lake Chad : tragedy of the floodplains --
11. Seas of death --
12. Mekong : feel of the pulse --
13. China : the hanging river --
14. Changing climate --
15. Wonders of the world --
16. Sun, silt, and stagnant ponds --
17. Dams that cause floods --
18. Palestine : poisoning the wells of peace --
19. The first modern water war --
20. Swords of Damocles --
21. Elisha's spring and the mysteries of Angkor --
22. Losing the west --
23. Aral sea : the end of the world --
24. Taking the water to the people --
25. Sewage on tap --
26. Closed basins and closed minds --
27. Out of thin air --
28. Catch the rain --
29. On the grapevine --
30. Unfailing springs --
31. Learning to love the floods --
32. Freeing Saddam's captives --
33. More crop per drop --
34. Water ethics.
Responsibility: Fred Pearce ; foreword by David Suzuki.
Pearce, Fred.
When the rivers run dry.
Toronto : Key Porter, ©2006
(OCoLC)894931817
Material Type: Biography
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Fred Pearce
ISBN: 1552637417 9781552637418
OCLC Number: 62129965
Notes: Includes index.
Description: 400 p. : maps ; 23 cm.
Contents: 1. The human sponge --
2. North America : crossing the Rio Grande --
3. Riding the water cycle --
4. Pakistan : the unhappy valley --
5. India : a colossal anarchy --
6. Halliburton's job for Qaddafi --
7. The world's largest mass poisoning --
8. Mirages --
9. The common wealth --
10. Lake Chad : tragedy of the floodplains --
11. Seas of death --
12. Mekong : feel of the pulse --
13. China : the hanging river --
14. Changing climate --
15. Wonders of the world --
16. Sun, silt, and stagnant ponds --
17. Dams that cause floods --
18. Palestine : poisoning the wells of peace --
19. The first modern water war --
20. Swords of Damocles --
21. Elisha's spring and the mysteries of Angkor --
22. Losing the west --
23. Aral sea : the end of the world --
24. Taking the water to the people --
25. Sewage on tap --
26. Closed basins and closed minds --
27. Out of thin air --
28. Catch the rain --
29. On the grapevine --
30. Unfailing springs --
31. Learning to love the floods --
32. Freeing Saddam's captives --
33. More crop per drop --
34. Water ethics.
Responsibility: Fred Pearce ; foreword by David Suzuki.
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