books: water supply

books: water supply

books:

Water supply

Emergency Food Storage & Survival Handbook: Everything You Need to Know to Keep Your Family Safe in a Crisis

Peggy Layton

Three Rivers Press, 2002

Emergency food storage
Love this book and it really gives you great details on how and what to store,even an inventory sheet and planning guides. With the trend of hyperinflation we need to be sensible and start this program now to be prepared in the future no matter what is to come we will ...

When the Rivers Run Dry: Water--The Defining Crisis of the Twenty-first Century

Fred Pearce

Beacon Press, 2007

Lots of Detail
He makes his point over and over and over again. I had to read this for a class, and the running joke we had was that he could have got his point across in 75 pages and saved alot of water from not having to print as many pages. Overall, this is a really good ...

Slow Food Nation: Why Our Food Should Be Good, Clean, And Fair

Carlo Petrini

Rizzoli Ex Libris, 2007

Slow Food: Rich in Character, Intelligence, and Hope
Carlo Petrini gave a lecture at NCSU in Raleigh earlier this year. His talk was in Italian, but his ideas were universal: if we want happiness and peace, we're going to have to change the way we eat. The book is fantastic. It is beautifully written, powerful, and ...

Water Storage: Tanks, Cisterns, Aquifers, and Ponds for Domestic Supply, Fire and Emergency Use--Includes How ...

Art Ludwig

Oasis Design, 2005

Read the book, Build the tank
I Built a 10,000 Gal tank straight out of this book for US$ 1,500. It looks good & it doesn't leak. What more can you ask for ?

Water Wars: Privatization, Pollution, and Profit

Vandana Shiva

South End Press, 2002

The Single Most Important Book You Can Read Today
the global water crisis is the biggest issue we will face in our lifetimes and not much is being done. This book puts things in a human light and makes solutions seem possible. Stop Bottled Water Industries Protect Global Commons [...]

Design for Water: Rainwater Harvesting, Stormwater Catchment, and Alternate Water Reuse

Heather Kinkade-Levario

New Society Publishers, 2007

An Excellent Resource
I am recomming this book to my customers who are considering rainwater collection. The book contains detailed explanation of collecting rainwater as well as conveyance and storage. The only downside, from my perspective, is that the purification section is deficient. ...

Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water, Revised Edition

Marc Reisner

Penguin (Non-Classics), 1993

Ahead of its time
This was a return engagement to "Cadillac Desert", as I had read the original in the 1980s, amazed at the time, considering it a premier example of thorough history and analysis in a subject about which few people knew much at all. What could have been a "dry" subject ...

Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond (Vol. 2): Water-Harvesting Earthworks

Brad Lancaster

Rainsource Press, 2007

A Great "How To" Guide for Landscape Water Conservation
This book deserves to be widely read, not just for people in the desert. I live in a region that gets nearly 45" of rainfall per year, and I can't wait to apply some of what I've learned from this great "how to" manual. Fresh water is a vanishing resource on our ...

Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands (Vol. 1): Guiding Principles to Welcome Rain into Your Life And Landscape

Brad Lancaster

Chelsea Green Publishing Company, 2006

Great water book!
The author has a really great sense of our water and how we must learn to live within our means. Not just a technical manual but a rationale for changing our water ways.

Blue Covenant: The Global Water Crisis and the Coming Battle for the Right to Water

Maude Barlow

New Press, 2008

Great review of water policy
Maude Barlow has written a very readable review of water policy. At first this would not seem like a very exciting topic, but water policy will soon affect all of us as we deplete the supply of accessible clean water. Ms. Barlow divides her book into five chapters. ...

Pompeii: A Novel

Random House, 2003

Explosive thriller
If you want to learn about how a volcano works, as well as about the history of Pompeii, while simultaneously reading an interesting and entertaining novel, then this book won't disappoint. From start to finish it offers the curious reader a succession of intellectual ...

Water Consciousness

AlterNet Books, 2008

The most important book on the most important crisis we face (or aren't facing)
In the middle of September of 2008, as the Senate of the United States was pondering an energy bill, all 100 Senators were invited to speak at a Bipartisan Energy Summit. With a national election less than two months away, you may imagine the posturing. But you might ...

The Home Water Supply: How to Find, Filter, Store, and Conserve It

Stu Campbell

Storey Publishing, LLC, 1983

A great source for home water system design and storage.
This book covers nearly every situation one may encounter in water procurement, perhaps the only subject not covered is hauling water to a completely dry site. The focus of this book is necessarily on shallow wells, as deep wells require professional drilling, never ...

Encyclopedia of Aquarium Plants

Peter Hiscock

Barron's Educational Series, 2003

Everything you could ever want to know about aquarium plants
I loved this book! It has very in-depth information. I've always had problems with algae in my planted aquarium and this book explains several reasons why this occurs and how to prevent it. It explains, in detail, nutrient requirements, lighting options, ways that fish ...

The Magic School Bus At The Waterworks (Magic School Bus)

Joanna Cole

Scholastic Press, 1988

A Splashing Debut
"The Magic School Bus: At the Waterworks" is the first in a series of science picture books geared towards young ones. Written by Joanna Cole and illustrated by Bruce Degen, it marks the debut of one of the most successful concepts in the history of children's ...