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Title:
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Running out of water : the looming crisis and solutions to conserve our most precious resource
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Authors:
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Peter P Rogers ;
Susan Leal
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Material Type:
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book
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Publisher:
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New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010
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ISBN / ISSN / EAN :
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978-0-230-61564-9
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Size:
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x, 245 p. / ill., maps / 25 cm
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Bibliography note:
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Languages:
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English
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Class number:
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TD388
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Subjects:
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Water conservation
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Water supply
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Water-supply--Management
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Description:
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Foreword / Edward J. Markey -- Chapter One. Turn On the Tap and Out Comes the Water -- Chapter Two. Making It Last: Using Technology to Recycle Water -- Chapter Three. Taming the Big User: Improving Agricultural Water Use -- Chapter Four. Wanted: Public Involvement -- Chapter Five. Valuing an Extremely Complicated Resource Leads to Wise Use -- Chapter Six. Waste Not, Want Not -- Chapter Seven. Rivers as Shared Resources: Transboundary Conflicts and Compromises -- Chapter Eight. Water that Lasts a Thousand Years: Bottled Water.
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