water-supply

Text and color illustrations explore how water use can be reduced, and how it can be reused and recycled. Includes audio, videos, activities, weblinks, slideshows, transparencies, maps, quizzes, and supplementary resources.

Text and color illustrations explore how water use can be reduced, and how it can be reused and recycled.

Cody is worried when his family on a New Mexico Navajo reservation runs out of water, but Darlene Arviso, called "The Water Lady," is on the way with her tanker truck. Includes glossary of Navajo terms and notes about Arviso and life on a reservation.

"Water scarcity and food security [in 11 African countries] are analyzed from a range of perspectives. What are the future predictions regarding population increase and climate change, and how will these affect development in Nile Basin countries? What are . . . water theories addressing the above issues, and what are the main challenges the Nile Basin countries will face in a context that is also strongly shaped by its history?"--Back cover.

A collection of essays on the history of the Nile River as a water source.

"Brockovich warns that America's water crisis isn't looming on the horizon--it's already here . . . [as] the most precious resource on planet Earth is alarmingly polluted by toxins, hazardous waste, lead, fracking chemicals, and more. . . She writes about the effects of climate change that have caused droughts in some areas and flooding in others, and shows how this is affecting us economically as well as destroying lives and property. She lays out the facts, and gives us the tools to take steps--large and small--to make changes in our own counties, cities and towns, and help to preserve our selves, our water, our planet"--Provided by publisher.

Contains facts, charts, and statistics from a variety of sources that provide information about water, discussing water use, surface and ground water, drinking water, oceans and coastal waters, wetlands, water in the arid West, and acid rain. Includes a glossary and references.

Discusses the growing problem of polluted water around the globe, and looks at what is being done to solve the problem.

Explores clean water in modern environmentalism through the lenses of history, geography, civics, and economics.

Cody is worried when his family on a New Mexico Navajo reservation runs out of water, but Darlene Arviso, called "The Water Lady," is on the way with her tanker truck. Includes glossary of Navajo terms and notes about Arviso and life on a reservation.