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Pub. Date
[2012], c2009
Language
English
Description
Drought, increasing populations, and shifting rainfall patterns are placing ever-greater demands on water supplies. But this video clip focuses on all that precious liquid we flush away. Can our wastewater be safely recycled for human consumption? In southeast Queensland a controversial multibillion dollar scheme is recycling water from treated sewage. Supporters of the initiative believe it will provide a much-needed boost to urban water supplies,...
Pub. Date
[2012], c2010
Language
English
Description
With fresh water making up only 3 percent of the world's supply, are we looking at a global crisis in the making? Some say it's already upon us-whether for drinking, growing crops, or proper hygiene, shortages are emerging all over the planet. Studying the impact on our home front, this CNBC Original documentary travels to the American West, where seven states compete for water from the Colorado River Basin, as well as to Alaska and Wisconsin, both...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
New York Times bestselling author Seth M. Siegel shows how our drinking water got contaminated, what it may be doing to us, and what we must do to make it safe. If you thought America's drinking water problems started and ended in Flint, Michigan, think again. From big cities and suburbs to the rural heartland, chemicals linked to cancer, heart disease, obesity, birth defects, and lowered IQ routinely spill from our taps. Many are to blame: the EPA,...
Series
Pub. Date
[2014], c2014
Language
English
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Description
Johnson relates the story of people who take us out of the dark and into the light. Hear about Edison's light bulb, which he didn't actually invent, and learn how an 18th-century ship's skipper discovered a source of illumination by putting a kid inside a whale's head. See how a French scientist accidentally discovered how to create neon light, leading to a revolution in advertising. Dispelling the myth of the individual "eureka" moment, Johnson reveals...
10) One two three
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
Mab is the 'normal' one, never mind Bourne Memorial High School has banned that term, and besides, she's a stickler for words and definitions and knows normal isn't normal in Bourne. Monday is a stickler for everything else. She doesn't like abbreviations, contractions, lies, typos, or wearing green clothes on yellow days. When the Bourne library shut down--funds desperately needed elsewhere--she stashed the books under her bed, behind the sofa, along...
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
.P. Rothbone and his Sniveling Cronies intended to pollute all the earth's drinking water to create a perpetual market for their new line of portable water purifiers. While looking for JP's secret island hideout, the Bonehead's are stranded on the very desert isle where JP has made camp. The castaways waste no time in moving to thwart JP's evil plans. Kids learn about the importance of water to all life on earth, and that the earth already has all...
12) Poisoned water: how the citizens of Flint, Michigan, fought for their lives and warned the nation
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
In 2014, the residents of Flint, Michigan noticed that their water was a copper hue and smelled and tasted like sulfur. Some began using bottled water, but many of those who didn't started to experience rashes, hair loss, and a frightening, debilitating illness. Still, city officials claimed water tests were normal. It wasn't until nearly a year later when Flint resident Lee Ann Walters sent a water sample to the Environmental Protection Agency that...
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"From the heroic pediatrician who rallied a community and brought the fight for justice to national attention comes a powerful firsthand account of the Flint water crisis--a dramatic story of failed democracy and inspiring citizen advocacy and action. In the heart of the world's wealthiest nation, one hundred thousand people were poisoned by the water supply for two years--with the knowing complicity of their government. Written by the crusading...
14) Kill Alex Cross
Author
Series
Alex Cross novels volume 18
Language
English
Description
"The President's son and daughter are abducted, and Detective Alex Cross is one of the first on the scene. But someone very high-up is using the FBI, Secret Service, and CIA to keep him off the case and in the dark. A deadly contagion in the water supply cripples half of the capital, and Alex discovers that someone may be about to unleash the most devastating attack the United States has ever experienced. As his window for solving both crimes narrows,...
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