groundwater

Provides a comprehensive study of floods, discussing the relationship between surface water and groundwater systems, streams and river systems, effects of river modifications and urbanization on river dynamics, flood disasters, groundwater contamination, and geological subsidence, compaction, and collapse.

This eye-opening look at life in an African village is narrated by Asale, a little girl whose family struggled to find enough water until a charity built a well in their area. Quotes from Asale illustrate life before and after the life-saving construction. Closes with a blunt conservation warning, followed by a plaintive comment from Asale that if people in rich countries keep using so much water, "there will not be enough for people in poor countries like mine.".

Describes the global uses and abuses of groundwater and suggests ways to preserve this valuable resource.

Follows a lawsuit brought against W.R. Grace & Co. for contaminating the drinking water in Woburn, Massachusetts that took nine years to settle.

The author discusses her idyllic childhood in Shirley, New York, a typical American working-class town, and considers how attitudes toward the town changed when neighbors began getting sick from waste from a nearby nuclear laboratory.

Follows a lawsuit brought against W.R. Grace & Co. for contaminating the drinking water in Woburn, Massachusetts.