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  Water Supply: Reference Shelf , Volume 80, Number 2

   
 
 

Contents

 

Preface

I. The Global Water Supply: An Overview

Editor’s Introduction
1) Blue Planet Blues. Eleanor J. Sterling. Natural History.
2) PopulationWatch: “More Crop per Drop.” Tushaar Shah. UN Chronicle Online.
3) Water Scarcity: The Food Factor. David Molden, Charlotte De Fraiture, and Frank Rijsberman. Issues in Science & Technology.
4) Not a Drop to Drink. Katharine Mieszkowski. Salon.
5) Where’s the Water? Andrea Neal. The Saturday Evening Post.
6) Water Woes. Marianne Lavelle. U.S. News & World Report.
7) Ask Natural Life Bottled Water or Tap Water? Wendy Priesnitz. Natural Life Magazine.

II. Water Wars

Editor’s Introduction
1) The Rise of Big Water. Charles C. Mann. Vanity Fair.
2) Water for Profit. Jon R. Luoma. Mother Jones.
3) The New Water Wars. Bill Lambrecht. The Washington Monthly.
4) Water War. Current Events (Weekly Reader).
5) Sharing the River Out of Eden. Sandra L. Postel. Natural History.

III. Polluted Waters

Editor’s Introduction
1) Sold Down the River. Eleanor J. Sterling and Merry D. Camhi. Natural History.
2) Troubled Waters. Mary Carmichael, Sarah Schafer, and Sudip Mazumdar. Newsweek.
3) A Prayer for the Ganges. Joshua Hammer. Smithsonian.
4) Breathless in Brooklyn. Frank Koughan. Mother Jones.
5) Dangerous Waters. Sharon P. Nappier, Robert S. Lawrence, and Kellogg J. Schwab. Natural History.
6) Water. New Internationalist.

IV. Climate Change and the Water Supply

Editor’s Introduction
1) A European Sahara? Eric Pape. Newsweek.
2) The Big Dry. The Economist.
3) Tapped Out? Melting Snow May Equal Less Water. Laura Snider. Daily Camera (Boulder, Colorado).
4) Climate Change Could Mean More Massive Downpours. Lisa Stiffler and Tom Paulson. Seattle Post-Intelligencer.

V. Water Management

Editor’s Introduction
1) How to Fix Our Dam Problems. James G. Workman. Issues in Science and Technology.
2) Scaling Up Drinking Water Services. Junaid K. Ahmad, David Savage, and Vivek Srivastava. Development Outreach (World Bank).
3) From California Sewage, Drinking Water. Randal C. Archibold. The International Herald Tribune.
4) Clean and Green. Donald Baker, Les Lampe, and Laura Adams. American City and County.

Bibliography
Books
Web Sites
Additional Periodical Articles with Abstracts
Index

ISBN  ISBN  978-0-8242-1079-3

April 2007
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