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The water coming out of your tap is four billion years old and might have been slurped by a Tyrannosaurus Rex. We will always have exactly as much water on Earth as we have ever had. Water cannot be destroyed, and it can always be made clean enough for drinking again. In fact, water can be made so clean that it actually becomes toxic. As Charles Fishman brings vibrantly to life in this delightful narrative excursion, water runs our world in a host of awe-inspiring ways, which is both the promise and the peril of our unexplored connections to it. Taking listeners from the wet moons of Saturn to the water-obsessed hotels of Las Vegas, and from a rice farm in the Australian outback to a glimpse into giant vats of soup at Campbell's largest factory, he reveals that our relationship to water is conflicted and irrational, neglected and mismanaged. Whether we will face a water scarcity crisis has little to do with water and everything to do with how we think about water-how we use it, connect with it, and understand it. Portraying and explaining both the dangers-in 2008, Atlanta came just ninety days from running completely out of drinking water-and the opportunities, such as advances in rainwater harvesting and businesses that are making huge breakthroughs in water productivity, The Big Thirst will forever change the way we think about water, our crucial relationship to it, and the creativity we can bring to ensuring we always have plenty of it.

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9781439102077 | Free Pr, April 12, 2011, cover price $26.99

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9781439102084 | Reprint edition (Free Pr, February 14, 2012), cover price $17.00

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9781452600789 | Unabridged edition (Tantor Media Inc, April 12, 2011), cover price $34.99
9781452650784 | Mp3 una edition (Tantor Media Inc, April 12, 2011), cover price $24.99 | About this edition: The water coming out of your tap is four billion years old and might have been slurped by a Tyrannosaurus Rex.

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Product Description: The water coming out of your tap is four billion years old and might have been slurped by a Tyrannosaurus Rex. We will always have exactly as much water on Earth as we have ever had. Water cannot be destroyed, and it can always be made clean enough for drinking again...read more

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9781452630786, titled "The Big Thirst: The Secret Life and Turbulent Future of Water: Library Edition" | Unabridged edition (Tantor Media Inc, April 12, 2011), cover price $83.99 | About this edition: The water coming out of your tap is four billion years old and might have been slurped by a Tyrannosaurus Rex.

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Product Description: In the past businesses have viewed water as a minimal operational cost and not a strategic issue. However, water has now emerged as a critical issue for both corporations and the public sector in response to increased water demand, climatic risks and potentially negative impacts on brand value...read more

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9781849711852 | Routledge, January 27, 2011, cover price $100.00 | About this edition: In the past businesses have viewed water as a minimal operational cost and not a strategic issue.

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Product Description: The authors present scenarios for the broad trends that will have a significant impact upon future water challenges-- population, economic growth, energy, climate change, and general demographic trends. Examine what might be in store for us and how individuals, water utilities, industries, and countries can change the future of water...read more
By Bruce Babbitt (foreword by), Steve Maxwell and Scott Yates (contributor)

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9781583218099 | Amer Water Works Assn, April 20, 2011, cover price $31.00 | About this edition: Around the world, water tables have dropped lower and lower as more straws are dipped into the finite number of water aquifers.

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9781583218914 | Amer Water Works Assn, June 1, 2012, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: The authors present scenarios for the broad trends that will have a significant impact upon future water challenges-- population, economic growth, energy, climate change, and general demographic trends.

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Product Description: Driving factors of global change, such as climate change, agricultural knowledge, science, and technology, are examined in this volume, in addition to their effects. Potential policy and institutional solutions are considered, as is the role of globalization.
By Sarah Cline (editor)

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9783642046148 | 1 edition (Springer Verlag, February 3, 2010), cover price $199.00 | About this edition: In recent years, a greater level of integration of the world economy and an opening of national markets to trade has impacted virtually all areas of society.

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9783642262210 | Springer Verlag, April 6, 2012, cover price $199.00 | About this edition: Driving factors of global change, such as climate change, agricultural knowledge, science, and technology, are examined in this volume, in addition to their effects.

Globalization of Water is a first-of-its-kind review of the critical relationship between globalization and sustainable water management. It explores the impact of international trade on local water depletion and pollution and identifies “water dependent” nations. Examines the critical link between water management and international trade, considering how local water depletion and pollution are often closely tied to the structure of the global economy Offers a consumer-based indicator of each nation’s water use: the water footprint Questions whether trade can enhance global water use efficiency, or whether it simply shifts the environmental burden to a distant location Highlights the hidden link between national consumption and the use of water resources across the globe, identifying the threats facing ‘water dependent’ countries worldwide Provides a state-of-the-art review and in-depth data source for a new field of knowledge

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9781405163354, titled "Globalization of Water: Sharing the Planet's Freshwater Resources" | Blackwell Pub, February 5, 2008, cover price $90.00 | About this edition: Globalization of Water is a first-of-its-kind review of the critical relationship between globalization and sustainable water management.

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9780130449443, titled "Quickbooks Pro 2002: A Complete Course" | Prentice Hall, August 1, 2002, cover price $74.67 | also contains Quickbooks Pro 2002: A Complete Course | About this edition: Written by Janet Horne, the #1 author of QuickBooks texts, this book provides a full-semester introduction to QuickBooks Basic, Pro, and Premier.

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9780470695470, titled "Globalization of Water: Sharing the Planet's Freshwater Resources" | Blackwell Pub, May 5, 2008, cover price $69.95

Miscellaneous:

9780470696224, titled "Globalization of Water: Sharing the Planet's Freshwater Resources" | Onl edition (John Wiley & Sons Inc, February 24, 2009), cover price $60.00

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Product Description: Groundwater is an indispensable resource in many parts of the world, where it supports domestic water supply, irrigated agriculture and industry. Its increased, and often intensive, use during the last half century has created problems and raised concerns regarding the potential depletion of local aquifers, water quality degradation and various geologic hazards such as land subsidence and sinkholes...read more

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9780415619875 | CRC Pr I Llc, May 27, 2011, cover price $188.95 | About this edition: Groundwater is an indispensable resource in many parts of the world, where it supports domestic water supply, irrigated agriculture and industry.

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By Kurt Schwabe (editor)

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9781782549642 | Edward Elgar Pub, November 25, 2015, cover price $310.00

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Product Description: Old forms of governance in both public and private sectors are becoming increasingly irrelevant because of rapidly changing conditions. Because of these changes, both governance processes and the scope of the institutions through which power is exercised throughout society may have to undergo a radical break with the past and prevailing models of governance...read more
By Asit K. Biswas (editor)

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9780415606288 | Routledge, February 26, 2011, cover price $140.00 | About this edition: Old forms of governance in both public and private sectors are becoming increasingly irrelevant because of rapidly changing conditions.

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9780415674829 | 1 edition (Routledge, February 10, 2012), cover price $54.95 | About this edition: Old forms of governance in both public and private sectors are becoming increasingly irrelevant because of rapidly changing conditions.

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By Christine Esau (editor)

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9780415501255 | Routledge, April 19, 2013, cover price $160.00

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9780415501262 | Routledge, April 3, 2013, cover price $65.95

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The vocabulary and discourse of water resource management have expanded vastly in recent years to include an array of new concepts and terminology, such as water security, water productivity, virtual water and water governance. While the new conceptual lenses may generate insights that improve responses to the world’s water challenges, their practical use is often encumbered by ambiguity and confusion.  This book applies critical scrutiny to a prominent set of new but widely used terms, in order to clarify their meanings and improve the basis on which we identify and tackle the world’s water challenges. More specifically, the book takes stock of what several of the more prominent new terms mean, reviews variation in interpretation, explores how they are measured, and discusses their respective added value. It makes many implicit differences between terms explicit and aids understanding and use of these terms by both students and professionals. At the same time, it does not ignore the legitimately contested nature of some concepts. Further, the book enables greater precision on the interpretational options for the various terms, and for the value that they add to water policy and its implementation.
By Jonathan Lautze (editor)

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9780415711722 | Routledge, June 20, 2014, cover price $145.00 | About this edition: The vocabulary and discourse of water resource management have expanded vastly in recent years to include an array of new concepts and terminology, such as water security, water productivity, virtual water and water governance.

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9780415711739 | Routledge, August 12, 2014, cover price $52.95

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Product Description: Part of OECD Water Resources and Sanitation Set - Buy all four reports and save over 30% on buying separately! Water is a key prerequisite for human and economic development, and for maintaining ecosystems. However, billions of people lack access to water and sanitation services, mainly due to poor governance and inadequate investment and maintenance...read more

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9781843392798 | Intl Water Assn, March 20, 2009, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: Part of OECD Water Resources and Sanitation Set - Buy all four reports and save over 30% on buying separately!

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Product Description: This book sketches out a framework for analyzing the economic efficiency of particular river basin programs. It provides a useful cross-disciplinary perspective for economists and water resource developers�especially designed to provide working material for students in applied economics for conservation curricula...read more

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9781617260803 | Reprint edition (Resources for the Future, October 31, 2010), cover price $120.00 | About this edition: This book sketches out a framework for analyzing the economic efficiency of particular river basin programs.

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Product Description: Those who control water, hold power. Complicating matters, water is a flow resource; constantly changing states between liquid, solid, and gas, being incorporated into living and non-living things and crossing boundaries of all kinds...read more
By Alice Cohen (editor)

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9781409467908 | Ashgate Pub Co, March 20, 2015, cover price $119.95 | About this edition: Those who control water, hold power.

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The book is based on the results of the investigations of the authors in the semi-arid and arid regions (ASAR) of the globe. These investigations brought to the conclusion that the warming climate will cause the drying up of the water resources in these regions. In this case the principles of Sustainable Development will not be able to avert forthcoming catastrophes. These conclusions brought to the compilation of the policy of "Progressive Development", emphasising investment in the development of new water resources and changing the natural environments while advancing the local populations on the dimension of knowledge by education.
By Arie S. Issar (editor)

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9783642106392 | 1 edition (Springer Verlag, March 15, 2010), cover price $209.00 | About this edition: The book is based on the results of the investigations of the authors in the semi-arid and arid regions (ASAR) of the globe.

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9783642262845 | Springer Verlag, April 6, 2012, cover price $209.00

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Product Description: Written by Janet Horne, the #1 author of QuickBooks texts, this book provides a full-semester introduction to QuickBooks Basic, Pro, and Premier. Includes three practice sets.

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9780130449443 | Prentice Hall, August 1, 2002, cover price $74.67 | also contains Globalization of Water: Sharing the Planet’s Freshwater Resources | About this edition: Written by Janet Horne, the #1 author of QuickBooks texts, this book provides a full-semester introduction to QuickBooks Basic, Pro, and Premier.
9780130395665 | Pap/com edition (Prentice Hall, August 1, 2002), cover price $82.00 | About this edition: Quickbook Pro 2002 and Student CD provides training in using one of the best-selling computerized accounting programs available for small-to-mid-sized businesses—QuickBooks 2002, QuickBooks Pro 2002, and QuickBooks Premier 2002.

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