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LEADER: 01917cam a22003014a 4500
001 447266
005 20080409091714.0
008 050920s2006 maub 001 0 eng
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050 00 $aTC405$b.P43 2006
049 $aXIMM
100 1 $aPearce, Fred.
245 10 $aWhen the rivers run dry :$bwater, the defining crisis of the twenty-first century /$cFred Pearce.
260 $aBoston :$bBeacon Press,$cc2006.
300 $axi, 324 p. :$bmaps ;$c24 cm.
500 $aIncludes index.
505 0 $a1. The human sponge -- 2. North America : crossing the Rio Grande -- 3. Riding the water cycle -- 4. Pakistan : the unhappy valley -- 5. India : a colossal anarchy -- 6. Halliburton's job for Qaddafi -- 7. The world's largest mass poisoning -- 8. Mirages -- 9. The common wealth -- 10. Lake Chad : tragedy of the floodplains -- 11. Seas of death -- 12. Mekong : feel of the pulse -- 13. China : the hanging river -- 14. Changing climate -- 15. Wonders of the world -- 16. Sun, silt, and stagnant ponds -- 17. Dams that cause floods -- 18. Palestine : poisoning the wells of peace -- 19. The first modern water war -- 20. Swords of Damocles -- 21. Elisha's spring and the mysteries of Angkor -- 22. Losing the west -- 23. Aral sea : the end of the world -- 24. Taking the water to the people -- 25. Sewage on tap -- 26. Closed basins and closed minds -- 27. Out of thin air -- 28. Catch the rain -- 29. On the grapevine -- 30. Unfailing springs -- 31. Learning to love the floods -- 32. Freeing Saddam's captives -- 33. More crop per drop -- 34. Water ethics
650 0 $aWater resources development.
650 0 $aWater-supply.
994 $aC0$bXIM