Author: United States. National Water Commission
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 208
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Annual Report - National Water Commission
Author: United States. National Water Commission
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 208
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 208
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Annual Report of the Arizona Interstate Stream Commission
Author: Arizona Interstate Stream Commission
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Category : Water rights
Languages : en
Pages : 1104
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Category : Water rights
Languages : en
Pages : 1104
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Annual Report
Author: Metropolitan Water District of Southern California (Calif.)
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Category : Water
Languages : en
Pages : 238
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Publisher:
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Category : Water
Languages : en
Pages : 238
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Annual Report
Author: Colorado River Board of California
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Category : Water resources development
Languages : en
Pages : 518
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Category : Water resources development
Languages : en
Pages : 518
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Committee Prints
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1466
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1466
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Monthly Checklist of State Publications
Author: Library of Congress. Exchange and Gift Division
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Category : State government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 922
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June and Dec. issues contain listings of periodicals.
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Category : State government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 922
Book Description
June and Dec. issues contain listings of periodicals.
A Great Aridness
Author: William deBuys
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199779104
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
With its soaring azure sky and stark landscapes, the American Southwest is one of the most hauntingly beautiful regions on earth. Yet staggering population growth, combined with the intensifying effects of climate change, is driving the oasis-based society close to the brink of a Dust-Bowl-scale catastrophe. In A Great Aridness, William deBuys paints a compelling picture of what the Southwest might look like when the heat turns up and the water runs out. This semi-arid land, vulnerable to water shortages, rising temperatures, wildfires, and a host of other environmental challenges, is poised to bear the heaviest consequences of global environmental change in the United States. Examining interrelated factors such as vanishing wildlife, forest die backs, and the over-allocation of the already stressed Colorado River--upon which nearly 30 million people depend--the author narrates the landscape's history--and future. He tells the inspiring stories of the climatologists and others who are helping untangle the complex, interlocking causes and effects of global warming. And while the fate of this region may seem at first blush to be of merely local interest, what happens in the Southwest, deBuys suggests, will provide a glimpse of what other mid-latitude arid lands worldwide--the Mediterranean Basin, southern Africa, and the Middle East--will experience in the coming years. Written with an elegance that recalls the prose of John McPhee and Wallace Stegner, A Great Aridness offers an unflinching look at the dramatic effects of climate change occurring right now in our own backyard.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199779104
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
With its soaring azure sky and stark landscapes, the American Southwest is one of the most hauntingly beautiful regions on earth. Yet staggering population growth, combined with the intensifying effects of climate change, is driving the oasis-based society close to the brink of a Dust-Bowl-scale catastrophe. In A Great Aridness, William deBuys paints a compelling picture of what the Southwest might look like when the heat turns up and the water runs out. This semi-arid land, vulnerable to water shortages, rising temperatures, wildfires, and a host of other environmental challenges, is poised to bear the heaviest consequences of global environmental change in the United States. Examining interrelated factors such as vanishing wildlife, forest die backs, and the over-allocation of the already stressed Colorado River--upon which nearly 30 million people depend--the author narrates the landscape's history--and future. He tells the inspiring stories of the climatologists and others who are helping untangle the complex, interlocking causes and effects of global warming. And while the fate of this region may seem at first blush to be of merely local interest, what happens in the Southwest, deBuys suggests, will provide a glimpse of what other mid-latitude arid lands worldwide--the Mediterranean Basin, southern Africa, and the Middle East--will experience in the coming years. Written with an elegance that recalls the prose of John McPhee and Wallace Stegner, A Great Aridness offers an unflinching look at the dramatic effects of climate change occurring right now in our own backyard.
Views and Comments of the States [on Water Resources and Problems].
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on National Water Resources
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Category : Water resources development
Languages : en
Pages : 448
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Publisher:
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Category : Water resources development
Languages : en
Pages : 448
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Hearings, Reports and Prints of the Senate Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs
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Category : Legislative hearings
Languages : en
Pages : 798
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Category : Legislative hearings
Languages : en
Pages : 798
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Annual Report on the Colorado River Basin Salinity Control Program
Author: Colorado River Basin Salinity Control Program (U.S.)
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Category : Saline water conversion
Languages : en
Pages : 24
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Publisher:
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Category : Saline water conversion
Languages : en
Pages : 24
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