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Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
xi, 228 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm
Description
"Harvesting icebergs for drinking water is not a new idea. But for the first time in human history, doing so on a massive global scale is both increasingly feasible and necessary for our survival. Chasing Icebergs delivers a kaleidoscopic history of humans' relationship with icebergs, and offers an urgent assessment of the technological, cultural, and legal obstacles we must overcome to harness this freshwater resource"--
2) Thirst
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Formats
Description
"A heroic girl in Mumbai fights for her belief that water should be for everyone"--
3) Sed
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
237 pages ; 21 cm
Description
"Minni vive en la parte más pobre de Mumbai, con acceso limitado a agua potable y horas de espera para usar el grifo comunal. Últimamente, el acceso está amenazado por cortes de agua y, como Minni descubre una noche, por ladrones. Sin embargo, en el edificio donde trabaja al servicio de una familia privilegiada, tienen agua potable y hasta una piscina en el techo. Un día Minni se encuentra con el jefe de la mafia del agua. ¿Debe denunciarlo,...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
x, 356 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Description
"In The Three Ages of Water, expert on water resources and climate change Peter Gleick guides us through the long, fraught history of our most valuable resource. Spread over a ten-thousand-year human history, it begins with the fundamental evolutionary role water had in shaping early civilizations and empires, crests to the scientific and social revolutions that created modern society, and spills into the global water crisis of depleted groundwater...
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 92 min. ) : sound, color and black-and-white ; 4 3/4 in
Description
DVD-R. The Cherokee Word for Water is a feature film based on the events surrounding the late Wilma Mankiller's life that led to her political career, and ultimately to her becoming the first female Chief of the Cherokee Nation. The film begins with Mankiller returning to Oklahoma from California in the late 1970s, and follows her as she meets her future husband, Charlie Soap, and has a near-fatal car wreck, but the film is centered on the Bell Water...
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