
Global Issues: Freshwater Supply |
Book Category:
Juvenile Nonfiction > Science & Nature > Environmental Conservation & Protection
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Author:
Frank Caso
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Binding:
Hardcover
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ISBN 13:
9780816078264
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Price:
USD 45.00
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Publication Year:
2010
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Publisher Info
Infobase. InquiryBook Description
Freshwater Supply?investigates?the increasing water crisis and outlines the inevitable political, environmental, and cultural ramifications of the?issue. It offers case studies from the United States and four areas of current international concern: Bolivia; Egypt, Ethiopia, and Sudan; Israel, Jordan, and the Palestinian Territories; and India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh.?Each case study also provides an assessment of counterstrategies to mitigate possible disaster, including global discussion and cooperation, desalinization of ocean water, recycling, and filtration.