Examines water and access to it, discussing consumption and scarcity. 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. Includes audio, videos, activities, weblinks, slideshows, transparencies, maps, quizzes, and supplementary resources.
"Sandra Postel takes readers around the world to explore water projects that work with, rather than against, nature's rhythms. In New Mexico, forest rehabilitation is safeguarding drinking water; along the Mississippi River, farmers are planting cover crops to reduce polluted runoff; and in China, 'sponge cities' are capturing rainwater to curb urban flooding..."--Amazon.
"This guidebook focuses on our global health impact via 'water footprints', how much freshwater is used to produce goods and services such as manufacturing, growing, harvesting, packaging, and shipping to market, which teaches young readers how to consume responsibly, and to think innovatively on sustainable freshwater alternatives"--Provided by publisher.
Presents information about water, the different uses that people have for it, the limited amount of fresh water available in the world, ways to conserve water, and ways to avoid polluting water.
This book examines water from every angle, both physical and social. It covers the water cycle, uses of water, and water's role in shaping the planet, ending with a discussion of potable water as a nonrenewable resource and suggestions for conserving water.
