Drought & water supply books

1756 books were found.

Still the Wild River Runs: Congress, the Sierra Club, and the Fight to Save Grand Canyon

Still the Wild River Runs: Congress, the Sierra Club,...

Author: Byron E. Pearson
ISBN: 9780816520589
Format: Hardback
$132.00

Between 1963 and 1968, environmentalists were outraged when western water interests sought to construct two dams...  Read More >>

Handbook of Water Sensitive Planning and Design

Handbook of Water Sensitive Planning and Design

Author: Robert L. France ,  Lawrence Coffman (Prince George's County Government, Largo, MD, USA)
ISBN: 9781566705622
Format: Hardback
$525.00

Presents the history of water as a design and planning element in landscape architecture and describes interpretations...  Read More >>

The Nile Basin: National Determinants of Collective Action

The Nile Basin: National Determinants of Collective...

Author: John Waterbury
ISBN: 9780300088533
Format: Hardback
$132.00

This text focuses on the issues that face all international river basins by examining in detail the Nile Basin and...  Read More >>

Surface Water Hydrology: Volume 4 of the Proceedings of the International Conference on Water Resources Management in Arid Regions, Kuwait, March 2002

Surface Water Hydrology: Volume 4 of the Proceedings...

Author: V.P. Singh
ISBN: 9789058093660
Format: Hardback
$355.00

This book is an outcome of the international conference on water resource management in arid regions at Kuwait in...  Read More >>

Surface Water Hydrology: Volume 1 of the Proceedings of the International Conference on Water Resources Management in Arid Regions, Kuwait, March 2002

Surface Water Hydrology: Volume 1 of the Proceedings...

Author: V.P. Singh
ISBN: 9789058093639
Format: Hardback
$355.00

This is part one of the proceedings of the International Conference on Water Resources Management in Arid Regions,...  Read More >>

Intensive Use of Groundwater:: Challenges and Opportunities

Intensive Use of Groundwater:: Challenges and Opportunities...

Author: M. Ramon Llamas (Computense University of Madrid and Water Observatory at The Marcelino Botín Foundation, Madrid, Spain) ,  E. Custodio
ISBN: 9789058093905
Format: Hardback
$162.00

This definitive text adopts a more clarified approach to groundwater development, looking in particular at the ecological,...  Read More >>

Water on the Great Plains: Issues and Policies

Water on the Great Plains: Issues and Policies

Author: David W. Yoskowitz ,  Peter Joseph Longo
ISBN: 9780896724594
Format: Hardback
$92.40

The Great Plains of North America stretch from Texas to Alberta. It is on the brink of a water crisis, a silent...  Read More >>

Handbook of Pollution Control and Waste Minimization

Handbook of Pollution Control and Waste Minimization...

Author: Abbas Ghassemi
ISBN: 9780824705817
Format: Hardback
$295.00

Filled with case studies that demonstrate the use of pollution prevention principles in process design, this work...  Read More >>

Piping and Valves

Piping and Valves

Author: Frank R. Spellman ,  Joanne Drinan (Hampton Roads Sanitation District, Virginia Beach, VA, USA)
ISBN: 9781587161025
Format: Paperback
$231.00

Part of the ""Fundamentals for the Water and Wastewater Main Operator"" series, this title covers the basics of...  Read More >>

Natural Organics Removal Using Membranes: Principles, Performance, and Cost

Natural Organics Removal Using Membranes: Principles,...

Author: Andrea Schafer
ISBN: 9781587160936
Format: Hardback
$431.00

Compares the performances of ultrafiltration, microfiltration and nanofiltration in removing natural organic materials...  Read More >>

Against the Tide: The Battle for America's Beaches

Against the Tide: The Battle for America's Beaches

Author: Cornelia Dean
ISBN: 9780231084192
Format: Paperback
$45.95

Americans love to colonize their beaches. But when storms threaten, high-ticket beachfront construction takes precedence...  Read More >>

FLUID ARGUMENTS

FLUID ARGUMENTS

Author: Char Miller
ISBN: 9780816520619
Format: Hardback
$132.00

Water or the lack of it has shaped the contours of the American West and continues to dominate the region's development....  Read More >>

Marshes Of The Ocean Shore: Development of an Ecological Ethic

Marshes Of The Ocean Shore: Development of an Ecological...

Author: Joseph V. Siry
ISBN: 9780890963340
Format: Paperback
$52.67

"An early observer remarked that it was doubtful that organic life was anywhere more exquisitely adjusted to its...  Read More >>

Water in the West: A High Country News Reader

Water in the West: A High Country News Reader

Author: Char Miller
ISBN: 9780870714801
Format: Paperback
$79.07

A lively primer on the region's most precious and scarce resource, drawn from the pages of the newspaper that sets...  Read More >>

Against the Tide: The Battle for America's Beaches

Against the Tide: The Battle for America's Beaches

Author: Cornelia Dean
ISBN: 9780231084185
Format: Hardback
$165.95

Americans love to colonize their beaches. But when storms threaten, high-ticket beachfront construction takes precedence...  Read More >>

Dams and Disease: Ecological Design and Health Impacts of Large Dams, Canals and Irrigation Systems

Dams and Disease: Ecological Design and Health Impacts...

Author: William Jobin
ISBN: 9780419223603
Format: Hardback
$308.00

This book provides planners with an overview of a number of global water projects and the unexpected ecological...  Read More >>

Hydropolitics: An Introduction

Hydropolitics: An Introduction

Author: Stella Thomas
ISBN: 9781848139305
Format: Paperback
$132.00

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Hydropolitics: An Introduction

Hydropolitics: An Introduction

Author: Stella Thomas
ISBN: 9781848139312
Format: Hardback
$332.51

Presents case studies of regions under acute water stress, and then explores the global political currents that...  Read More >>

Acequia Culture: Water, Land, and Community in the Southwest

Acequia Culture: Water, Land, and Community in the Southwest...

Author: Jose A. Rivera
ISBN: 9780826318589
Format: Hardback
$132.00

Conflicts between Hispanic farmers and developers made for compelling reading in 'The Milagro Beanfield War', the...  Read More >>

Practical Design Calculations for Groundwater and Soil Remediation

Practical Design Calculations for Groundwater and Soil...

Author: Jeff Kuo (California State University, Fullerton, USA)
ISBN: 9781566702386
Format: Hardback
$353.63

Written in a user-friendly format, with more than 200 equations, tables, and figures, this book offers readers an...  Read More >>

Canals and Communities: Small-Scale Irrigation Systems

Canals and Communities: Small-Scale Irrigation Systems...

Author: Jonathan B. Mabry
ISBN: 9780816515929
Format: Hardback
$145.20

From the mountains of South America to the deserts of northern Africa to the islands of south Asia, people have...  Read More >>

Water in the Hispanic Southwest: A Social and Legal History, 1550-1850

Water in the Hispanic Southwest: A Social and Legal...

Author: Michael C. Meyer
ISBN: 9780816515950
Format: Paperback
$60.59

When Spanish conquistadores marched north from Mexico's interior, they encountered one harsh reality that eclipsed...  Read More >>

Radionuclide distribution and transport in terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems, volume 5: A critical review of data (Prepared for the Commission of the European Communities)

Radionuclide distribution and transport in terrestrial...

Author: P.J. Coughtrey ,  D. Jackson
ISBN: 9789061912927
Format: Hardback
$480.00

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Radionuclide distribution and transport in terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. Volume 4: A critical review of data (Prepared for the Commission of the European Communities)

Radionuclide distribution and transport in terrestrial...

Author: P.J. Coughtrey ,  D. Jackson
ISBN: 9789061912811
Format: Hardback
$546.00

Radionuclide distribution and transport in terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems is Volume 4 of a critical review of...  Read More >>

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