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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
This award winning documentary directed by Sam Bozzo is based on the book BLUE GOLD: THE FIGHT TO STOP THE CORPORATE THEFT OF THE WORLD'S WATER by Maude Barlow and Tony Clark. The film examines the problems created by the privatization and commoditization of water.
Publisher
Distributed by PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
"Wars of the future will be fought over water, as they are today over oil, as the source of all life enters the global marketplace and political arena. Corporate giants, private investors, and corrupt governments vie for control of our dwindling fresh water supply, prompting protests, lawsuits, and revolutions from citizens fighting for the right to survive. Past civilizations have collapsed from poor water management. Will ours too?"--Container.
4) Water
Publisher
Greenhaven Press
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Debates the issue of water resources.
Author
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Water Always Wins transports us around the world and back through time, exposing us to better ways to live with water. Gies introduces us to water experts the world over as they search for clues to water's past and present, using close observation, historical research, ancient animal and human wisdom, and cutting-edge science to effect change. We become more aware of the ways in which modern civilizations speed water away, erasing its slow phases...
7) Financial strategies for areawide water resources management in the national capital region: draft
Author
Publisher
Office of Planning Coordination for the Department of Water Resources, Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments
Pub. Date
1977.
Language
English
9) Washington metropolitan area water supply study of the northeastern United States water supply study
Author
Publisher
The Division
Pub. Date
[1975]
Language
English
Author
Publisher
University of Texas Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
As a changing climate threatens the whole country with deeper droughts and more furious floods that put ever more people and property at risk, Texas has become a bellwether state for water debates. Will there be enough water for everyone? Is there the will to take the steps necessary to defend ourselves against the sea? Is it in the nature of Americans to adapt to nature in flux? The most comprehensive--and comprehensible--book on contemporary water...
Author
Publisher
The New Press
Pub. Date
©2013.
Language
English
Description
Water activist and author Barlow, founder of the Blue Planet Project, lays out some terrifying unsafe-water statistics as she addresses the need for the international community to move toward a water-secure and water-just world.
14) Water in the Great Valley, people--problems--decisions: proceedings of the 1979 fall public meeting
Author
Series
ICPRB general publication volume 80-1
Publisher
Interstate Commission on the Potomac River Basin
Pub. Date
[1980]
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"A vivid, searching journey into California's complicated relationship to its water, from the Gold Rush to today -- an epic story of the struggle to overcome the constraints of nature Mark Arax is from a family of Central Valley farmers -- a journalist with deep ties to the land, who has watched as the battles over water have intensified even as the state lurches from drought to flood and back again. In The Dreamt Land he travels the state to explore...
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