water supply

Explores the water cycle and related issues.

Examines the potential for a serious global water crisis, the effects of global warming on water supplies, and ways to keep nations from going to war over water.

Discusses the age-old quest for water all over the world; the hydrologic cycle; and obtaining fresh water from saline and atmospheric water as well as from underground and surface water.

Discusses various issues related to water supply, covering decreasing supplies, damage caused by the building of dams, wasting irrigation water, overuse of ground water, and access to freshwater, and including two case studies for each as well as advice on what that reader can do to help.

Presents conflicting viewpoints concerning the future availability of drinking water, threats to surface and groundwater, and solutions for water pollution.

Discover a thirsty world where safe drinking water is rarely available, lakes are disappearing, polluted water brings disease, and see what we are trying to do to help our planet.

Describes how water is purified before it comes into the home and the effects of unclean water on the body.

Photographs and simple text describe the earth's water, why people, plants, and animals need water, and ways to protect the world's water source.

Explains how vital water is to human survival, and examines where water comes from, along with the ways children in Peru, Mauritania, the United States, Bangladesh, Ethiopia, and Tajikistan use this natural resource.

Explains what water is, how it is captured and stored, how it is cleaned and moved, and how it arrives in individual homes.