water supply

Basic overview of water resources, hydrology, the current problems involving water resources, and the potential impact of global warming and climate change. Addressing concerns about water resources, look at different ways to integrate concepts for water resources with other design and planning decisions.

Examines issues related to water, including the different sources, wastewater, pollution, droughts, the problem of supplying clean water to the world's increasing population, and more.

Discusses problems related to famine and drought around the world, and examines some solutions. Features color photographs and charts, sidebars, statistics, case studies, a glossary of terms, and sources of more information.

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.