A Journey In The Future Of Water

Author : Terje Tvedt
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-25
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780857723086

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A Journey in the Future of Water by Terje Tvedt Pdf

Nourished by fears of global warming and climate change, water has become an issue of urgent international concern. Is flooding across Europe and Asia a warning of more extreme weather conditions in times to come? Will rising sea-levels threaten some of the most densely populated regions of the Earth. And as the world population approaches 7 billion, placing increasing demands on our limited global water supply, will there be conflict over access to water? Fundamental questions about the future of humanity are being asked, and for the first time in history they have to do with the role of water and our ability to control it. In 'A Journey in the Future of Water' leading water expert, TerjeTvedt, explores the impact of our growing water concerns. In a journey that takes him to more than twenty-five countries and across all continents he talks with water experts, politicians and local people to find out more about the ways in which different nations are seeking to respond. From Project Moses, where gigantic underwater gates will rise to prevent the inundation of Venice, to India's River Link Plan, connecting thirty-seven Himalayan rivers to rivers in the south, the author has examined some the world's largest engineering projects, travelled the great river valleys, explored the rain-soaked coasts of Scandinavia and the rain-starved deserts of the Sahara and Oman. From Las Vegas to Lourdes, from Norway to the Nile, he has taken part in water festivals and rituals in Africa and India, travelled to poor nomadic societies and some of the largest cities in the world, in order to better understand this most precious of resources and its determining role in the life of the planet. The result is both one of the most comprehensive and accessible accounts of current and future global water issues and a celebration of water itself.

Author : Terje Tvedt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Water resources development
ISBN : 075561867X

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A Journey in the Future of Water by Terje Tvedt Pdf

"Nourished by fears of global warming and climate change, water has become an issue of international concern. In "Journey in the Future of Water" leading water expert, TerjeTvedt, travels to 25 countries and all continents to find out more about the ways in which different nations are seeking to respond. From Project Moses, where gigantic underwater gates will rise to prevent the inundation of Venice, to India's River Link Plan, connecting 37 Himalayan rivers to major rivers in the south, the author examines the world's largest engineering projects, travels the great river valleys, visits 'the largest ocean under the Earth', and major cities of the world, to explore water's determining role in the life of the planet. The most comprehensive and accessible account of global water issues to date."--Bloomsbury publishing.

Author : Seth B Darling,Seth W Snyder
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2018-06-26
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789813271418

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Water Is...: The Indispensability Of Water In Society And Life by Seth B Darling,Seth W Snyder Pdf

People are increasingly aware of the role that water has in shaping society and how it impacts quality of life. This is the first book to provide a holistic perspective on water, capturing the full breadth of the science, technology, policy, history, and future outlook for the most important substance on earth — written at a level accessible to non-experts in each of these areas.Water is shockingly bizarre in its properties and of unsurpassed importance throughout human history, yet so mundane as to often be invisible in our daily lives. In Water Is ..., the two Seths (Darling and Snyder) walk the reader through all of the diverse perspectives on water. The journey begins with an exploration of the mysteries of water's properties on the molecular level, zooming out through its central role at biological and geological scales. Next, the Seths travel through the history of human civilization, highlighting the fundamental part water has played throughout, including the complexities of water policy, privatization, and pricing in today's world. Attention then turns to technology and innovation, emphasizing the daunting challenges dictated by increasing water stress and a changing climate as well as the enticing opportunities to achieve a secure global water future.Water is arguably the single most interdisciplinary topic. Students in business, policy, history, science, and engineering can best position themselves to make an impact by learning about the entire range of diverse, unexpected, and fascinating angles on water.Related Link(s)

Author : Steve Maxwell,Scott Yates,American Water Works Association
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Climatic changes
ISBN : 1583218092

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The Future of Water by Steve Maxwell,Scott Yates,American Water Works Association Pdf

Answering questions about the future of water supplies, Maxwell gathers the best thinking of water experts and clearly explains what will happen to future resources, agriculture, treatment and distribution, climate, and many other important water issues.

Author : Heather Hansman
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2022-01-21
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780226819976

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Downriver by Heather Hansman Pdf

The Green River, the most significant tributary of the Colorado River, runs 730 miles from the glaciers of Wyoming to the desert canyons of Utah. Providing water for thirty-three million people, it flows through ranches, cities, national parks, and some of the most significant natural gas fields in the country. Stopped up by dams, slaked off by irrigation, and dried up by cities, the Green is crucial, overused, and at risk, now more than ever. Fights over the river's water, and what's going to happen to it in the future, are long-standing, intractable, and only getting worse as the West gets hotter and drier and more people depend on the river with each passing year. Former raft guide and environmental reporter Heather Hansman knew the issues but felt driven to see the situation firsthand and from a different perspective - from the river itself. So she set out on a journey, in a one-person inflatable pack raft and with an open mind, and see what the experience might teach her. Mixing lyrical accounts of quiet paddling through breathtaking beauty with nights spent camping solo and lively discussions with farmers, city officials, and other people met along the way, Downriver is the story of that journey, a foray into the present-and future- of water in the West. --

Author : Charles Fishman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2011-04-12
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781439124932

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The Big Thirst by Charles Fishman Pdf

Praised as “an entertaining and torrential flow of a book” by Nature magazine, The Big Thirstis a startling examination of the passing of the golden age of water and the shocking facts about how water scarcity will soon be a major factor in our lives. The water coming out of your kitchen tap is four billion years old and might well have been sipped by a Tyrannosaurus rex. Rather than only three states of water—liquid, ice, and vapor—there is a fourth, “molecular water,” fused into rock 400 miles deep in the Earth, and that’s where most of the planet’s water is found. Unlike most precious resources, water cannot be used up; it can always be made clean enough again to drink—indeed, water can be made so clean that it’s toxic. Water is the most vital substance in our lives but also more amazing and mysterious than we appreciate. As Charles Fishman brings vibrantly to life in this surprising and mind-changing narrative, water runs our world in a host of awe-inspiring ways, yet we take it completely for granted. But the era of easy water is over. Bringing readers on a lively and fascinating journey—from the wet moons of Saturn to the water-obsessed hotels of Las Vegas, where dolphins swim in the desert, and from a rice farm in the parched Australian outback to a high-tech IBM plant that makes an exotic breed of pure water found nowhere in nature—Fishman vividly shows that we’ve already left behind a century-long golden age when water was thoughtlessly abundant, free, and safe and entered a new era of high-stakes water. In 2008, Atlanta came within ninety days of running entirely out of clean water. California is in a desperate battle to hold off a water catastrophe. And in the last five years Australia nearly ran out of water—and had to scramble to reinvent the country’s entire water system. But as dramatic as the challenges are, the deeper truth Fishman reveals is that there is no good reason for us to be overtaken by a global water crisis. We have more than enough water. We just don’t think about it, or use it, smartly. The Big Thirst brilliantly explores our strange and complex relationship to water. We delight in watching waves roll in from the ocean; we take great comfort from sliding into a hot bath; and we will pay a thousand times the price of tap water to drink our preferred brand of the bottled version. We love water—but at the moment, we don’t appreciate it or respect it. Just as we’ve begun to reimagine our relationship to food, a change that is driving the growth of the organic and local food movements, we must also rethink how we approach and use water. The good news is that we can. As Fishman shows, a host of advances are under way, from the simplicity of harvesting rainwater to the brilliant innovations devised by companies such as IBM, GE, and Royal Caribbean that are making impressive breakthroughs in water productivity. Knowing what to do is not the problem. Ultimately, the hardest part is changing our water consciousness. As Charles Fishman writes, “Many civilizations have been crippled or destroyed by an inability to understand water or manage it. We have a huge advantage over the generations of people who have come before us, because we can understand water and we can use it smartly.” The Big Thirst will forever change the way we think about water, about our essential relationship to it, and about the creativity we can bring to ensuring that we’ll always have plenty of it.

Author : A.J.M. (Lida) Schelwald-van der Kley,Linda Reijerkerk
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2009-03-19
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780203872369

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Water: A way of life by A.J.M. (Lida) Schelwald-van der Kley,Linda Reijerkerk Pdf

"Water: a way of life" takes the reader on a water journey through time and across the worlds continents. Along the way it explains the past and present ways in which different cultures around the world, both traditional and modern, view and manage water in response to the distinct environment they inhabit. A better understanding of cultural water beliefs and practices may lead to new concepts for future sustainable water management - from flood management to water supply, sanitation and irrigation management.

Author : Terje Tvedt,Tadesse Kasse Woldetsadik,Owen McIntyre
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 744 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2015-05-30
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781786739612

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A History of Water, Series III, Volume 2: Sovereignty and International Water Law by Terje Tvedt,Tadesse Kasse Woldetsadik,Owen McIntyre Pdf

As global climate change threatens to change radically both the political and physical climate with regard to water issues, so a reassessment of some of the fundamental principles of international water law is emerging. One of the most important principles being reassessed is the sovereign equality of states. This volume brings together more than thirty leading international water and legal specialists to explore the development and changing relationship between water, state sovereignty and international law. Offering fresh insights into one of the most pressing issues in global water policy, Sovereignty and International Water Law will form an essential reference for water professionals, legal specialists and policy makers alike.

Author : Andrea Ballestero
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781478004516

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A Future History of Water by Andrea Ballestero Pdf

Based on fieldwork among state officials, NGOs, politicians, and activists in Costa Rica and Brazil, A Future History of Water traces the unspectacular work necessary to make water access a human right and a human right something different from a commodity. Andrea Ballestero shows how these ephemeral distinctions are made through four technolegal devices—formula, index, list and pact. She argues that what is at stake in these devices is not the making of a distinct future but what counts as the future in the first place. A Future History of Water is an ethnographically rich and conceptually charged journey into ant-filled water meters, fantastical water taxonomies, promises captured on slips of paper, and statistical maneuvers that dissolve the human of human rights. Ultimately, Ballestero demonstrates what happens when instead of trying to fix its meaning, we make water’s changing form the precondition of our analyses.

Author : Siobhan Carroll
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2015-03-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780812246780

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An Empire of Air and Water by Siobhan Carroll Pdf

Planetary spaces such as the poles, the oceans, the atmosphere, and subterranean regions captured the British imperial imagination. Intangible, inhospitable, or inaccessible, these blank spaces—what Siobhan Carroll calls "atopias"—existed beyond the boundaries of known and inhabited places. The eighteenth century conceived of these geographic outliers as the natural limits of imperial expansion, but scientific and naval advances in the nineteenth century created new possibilities to know and control them. This development preoccupied British authors, who were accustomed to seeing atopic regions as otherworldly marvels in fantastical tales. Spaces that an empire could not colonize were spaces that literature might claim, as literary representations of atopias came to reflect their authors' attitudes toward the growth of the British Empire as well as the part they saw literature playing in that expansion. Siobhan Carroll interrogates the role these blank spaces played in the construction of British identity during an era of unsettling global circulations. Examining the poetry of Samuel T. Coleridge and George Gordon Byron and the prose of Sophia Lee, Mary Shelley, and Charles Dickens, as well as newspaper accounts and voyage narratives, she traces the ways Romantic and Victorian writers reconceptualized atopias as threatening or, at times, vulnerable. These textual explorations of the earth's highest reaches and secret depths shed light on persistent facets of the British global and environmental imagination that linger in the twenty-first century.

Author : Caren Trafford
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Hydrologic cycle
ISBN : 0958187819

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Water ... the Amazing Journey by Caren Trafford Pdf

Water - it covers 70% of the planet, and it's always on the move. In this charming children's book, Caren Trafford talks to Wasu, a very talkative water droplet, who reveals his view on life. Readers follow the water cycle, travel through the ages and discover things they never knew about water - why is it so important? Where does it go? What does it do in its spare time? Water droplet Wasu also reveals how he and other water droplets manage water so there is enough for future generations, teaching readers the vital importance of water conservation.

Author : Terje Tvedt
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2015-12-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780857739049

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Water and Society by Terje Tvedt Pdf

Despite the central importance that water has held for civilizations both ancient and modern, its social significance has made surprisingly little impact on our contemporary understanding of human history and development. Dominant interpretations of the relationship between society and nature have remained water blind. In Water and Society historian and leading water expert Terje Tvedt argues for a change that acknowledges the significant role played by water in societal development. Reflecting his expertise as a geographer, historian and a political scientist, and drawing on his wide experience of water issues around the world, Terje Tvedt s Water and Society provides a long overdue reappraisal of the relationship between water and society, one that gives water its rightful place as central to any true understanding of human history and development."

Author : Thomas Barclay
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Water-supply
ISBN : UIUC:30112088630014

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The Future Water Supply of Birmingham by Thomas Barclay Pdf

Author : Marq De Villiers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-18
Category : Water-supply
ISBN : 1773100467

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Back to the Well by Marq De Villiers Pdf

"Droughts. Floods. Contamination. The perils to the global fresh-water supply have never been so clear or so numerous. In dozens of countries, ordinary citizens have cause to worry about their water, and who will ensure that it is available, affordable, and safe. In this refreshing examination of the fate and future of water, now available in trade paper edition, Marq de Villiers takes on some of the biggest questions and shibboleths of the century. Who owns water? Is access to water a human right? Who is responsible for keeping water clean and ensuring that it gets to the people who need it most? Is privatization of ownership an evil or an extension of the public trust? In this engaging and inspiring book, De Villiers offers a clear-eyed assessment of the politics of water, proposing innovative, real-life solutions based on local initiatives."--

Author : David Sedlak
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-28
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780300176490

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Water 4.0 by David Sedlak Pdf

The little-known story of the systems that bring us our drinking water, how they were developed, the problems they are facing, and how they will be reinvented in the near future