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Book The Water Closet

    Book Details:
  • Author : Pike Messenger
  • Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Release : 2012-07-17
  • ISBN : 9781478260073
  • Pages : 442 pages

Download or read book The Water Closet written by Pike Messenger and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2012-07-17 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to a rich and enjoyable assortment of water-related essays written for a weekly column, “The Water Closet,” by the Middleton Stream Team and published from January, 2006, through December, 2011, in the Tri-Town Transcript, a community paper serving the Ipswich River watershed towns of Middleton, Boxford and Topsfield, Massachusetts. The Middleton Stream Team is an active volunteer group with the broad purposes of environmental stewardship, conservation, advocacy, public service and education. The essays and information provided span all these purposes.

Book Water resources Investigations Report

Download or read book Water resources Investigations Report written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Water Follies

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  • Author : Robert Jerome Glennon
  • Publisher : Island Press
  • Release : 2012-09-26
  • ISBN : 1597267872
  • Pages : 329 pages

Download or read book Water Follies written by Robert Jerome Glennon and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2012-09-26 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Santa Cruz River that once flowed through Tucson, Arizona is today a sad mirage of a river. Except for brief periods following heavy rainfall, it is bone dry. The cottonwood and willow trees that once lined its banks have died, and the profusion of birds and wildlife recorded by early settlers are nowhere to be seen. The river is dead. What happened? Where did the water go. As Robert Glennon explains in Water Follies, what killed the Santa Cruz River -- and could devastate other surface waters across the United States -- was groundwater pumping. From 1940 to 2000, the volume of water drawn annually from underground aquifers in Tucson jumped more than six-fold, from 50,000 to 330,000 acre-feet per year. And Tucson is hardly an exception -- similar increases in groundwater pumping have occurred across the country and around the world. In a striking collection of stories that bring to life the human and natural consequences of our growing national thirst, Robert Glennon provides an occasionally wry and always fascinating account of groundwater pumping and the environmental problems it causes. Robert Glennon sketches the culture of water use in the United States, explaining how and why we are growing increasingly reliant on groundwater. He uses the examples of the Santa Cruz and San Pedro rivers in Arizona to illustrate the science of hydrology and the legal aspects of water use and conflicts. Following that, he offers a dozen stories -- ranging from Down East Maine to San Antonio's River Walk to Atlanta's burgeoning suburbs -- that clearly illustrate the array of problems caused by groundwater pumping. Each episode poses a conflict of values that reveals the complexity of how and why we use water. These poignant and sometimes perverse tales tell of human foibles including greed, stubbornness, and, especially, the unlimited human capacity to ignore reality. As Robert Glennon explores the folly of our actions and the laws governing them, he suggests common-sense legal and policy reforms that could help avert potentially catastrophic future effects. Water Follies, the first book to focus on the impact of groundwater pumping on the environment, brings this widespread but underappreciated problem to the attention of citizens and communities across America.

Book The Bicentennial of the United States of America

Download or read book The Bicentennial of the United States of America written by American Revolution Bicentennial Administration and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Surface Water Records of Massachusetts  New Hampshire  Rhode Island  and  Vermont

Download or read book Surface Water Records of Massachusetts New Hampshire Rhode Island and Vermont written by Geological Survey (U.S.). Surface Water Branch and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Annual Report of the State Board of Health of Massachusetts

Download or read book Annual Report of the State Board of Health of Massachusetts written by Massachusetts. State Board of Health and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Boston Area Waste Treatment Management Plan

Download or read book Boston Area Waste Treatment Management Plan written by and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Scientific Investigations Report

Download or read book Scientific Investigations Report written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book National Water Quality Inventory

Download or read book National Water Quality Inventory written by and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Water Resources Data for Massachusetts  New Hampshire  Rhode Island  and  Vermont

Download or read book Water Resources Data for Massachusetts New Hampshire Rhode Island and Vermont written by Geological Survey (U.S.). Water Resources Division and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 940 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Master Register of Bicentennial Projects  February 1976

Download or read book Master Register of Bicentennial Projects February 1976 written by American Revolution Bicentennial Administration and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Sustainable Communities on a Sustainable Planet

Download or read book Sustainable Communities on a Sustainable Planet written by and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book DIARY OF A NAPOLEONIC FOOT SOLDIER

Download or read book DIARY OF A NAPOLEONIC FOOT SOLDIER written by Jakob Walter and published by Doubleday. This book was released on 2012-05-09 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A grunt’s-eye report from the battlefield in the spirit of The Red Badge of Courage and All Quiet on the Western Front—the only known account by a common soldier of the campaigns of Napoleon’s Grand Army between 1806 and 1813. When eighteen-year-old German stonemason Jakob Walter was conscripted into the Grand Army of Napoleon, he had no idea of the trials that lay ahead. The long, grueling marches in Prussia and Poland sacrificed countless men to Bonaparte’s grand designs. And the disastrous Russian campaign tested human endurance on an epic scale. Demoralized by defeat in a war few supported or understood, deprived of ammunition and leadership, driven past reason by starvation and bitter cold, men often turned on one another, killing fellow soldiers for bread or an able horse. Though there are numerous surviving accounts of the Napoleonic Wars written by officers, Walter’s is the only known memoir by a draftee, and as such is a unique and fascinating document—a compelling chronicle of a young soldier’s loss of innocence as well as an eloquent and moving portrait of the profound effects of war on the men who fight it. Professor Marc Raeff has added an Introduction to the memoirs as well as six letters home from the Russian front, previously unpublished in English, from German conscripts who served concurrently with Walter. The volume is illustrated with engravings and maps, contemporary with the manuscript, from the Russian/Soviet and East European collections of the New York Public Library. Honest, heartfelt, deeply personal yet objective, The Diary of a Napoleonic Foot Soldier is more than an informative and absorbing historical document—it is a timeless and unforgettable account of the horrors of war.