Drought & Water Supply

Californias water is at the center of an intense economic and political struggle. A balance between supply and demand must be reached, but it is fa...

Thirlmere hides a deadly secretDrought hits the Lake District, uncovering a skeleton at the bottom of Thirlmere reservoir. The case quickly becomes...

In Hydraulic City Nikhil Anand explores the politics of Mumbai's water infrastructure to demonstrate how citizenship emerges through the continuous...

The focus of municipalities has been on the supply of sufficient water quantities to the public with less attention paid to water quality. The dete...

resh water is becoming an increasingly precious commodity. In the near future, control of it could lead to the type of political instability that i...

This exciting new textbook introduces the concepts and tools essential for upper-level undergraduate study in water resources and hydraulics. Tailo...

Federal funding for wildfire management (WFM) is provided in the annual Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies appropriations bill. It funds w...

It is predicted that climate change will result in big changes to the global distribution of rainfall, causing drought and desertification in some ...

Containing papers from the ninth International Conference on Sustainable Water Resources Management, this book presents the work of scientists, pra...

The Times Book of the Year pick'Smart, sobering, and scholarly.' - Steve Brusatte, the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Rise and Fall of Dino...

A journey through time and around the world to uncover water's true nature, and how it can help us adapt to climate change. Trouble with water in...

The water resources of the Selenga River/Lake Baikal system are of fundamental importance for the ecosystems and socio-economic development of the ...

With hardly a day without a water-crisis story somewhere, Let There Be Water offers prescriptions on how countries, cities, and businesses can avoi...

  From the award-winning author of Ishmaels Oranges comes a searing novel with a profound moral conflict at its heart. When a heart attack kills ...

Civilisation is thirsty... it never stopped to think what would happen if the water ran out. ALEXANDER BELL Peak water is the point when the availa...

Lynne Buchanan began photographing Floridas inland waters to create artistic records of her connection with those waters and to learn lessons from ...

This is the essential guide to the plants suited to our changing climate of warmer, drier summers, written by Kew expert Tony Hall. With over 20 ye...

We have disrupted the natural water cycle for centuries in an effort to control water for our own prosperity. Yet every year, recovery from drought...

After a cascade of failures left residents of Flint, Michigan, without a reliable and affordable supply of safe drinking water, citizens spent year...

Freshwater scarcity is a critical challenge, with social, economic, political and environmental consequences. Water crises in Australia have alread...

The West without Water documents the tumultuous climate of the American West over twenty millennia, with tales of past droughts and deluges and pre...

Remarkable satellite photographs show where water is - or isn't - and how we are using it. Water is in crisis. We are in crisis. All life depends o...

Supplying water to millions is not simply an engineering and logistical challenge. As David Soll shows in his finely observed history of the nation...

A journey through time and around the world to uncover water's true nature, and how it can help us adapt to climate change. Trouble with water in...

The West without Water documents the tumultuous climate of the American West over twenty millennia, with tales of past droughts and deluges and pre...

The Indus Waters Treaty is considered a key example of India-Pakistan cooperation, but less has been said about its critical influence on state-mak...

Everywhere in the world communities and nations organize themselves in relation to water. We divert water from rivers, lakes, and aquifers to ou...

Water is our most vital resource, yet few understand even the basics of watershed ecology. This new edition has been updated to reflect growing env...

The combination of cheap, easily available materials, margin for error, suitability for amateurs and flexibility in terms of size and shape, make f...

Updated edition of a comprehensive introduction to the economics of water management, with self-contained treatment of all necessary economic conce...

Illuminating. --New York Times WIRED's Required Science Reading 2016 When we think of water in the West, we think of conflict and crisis. I...

Water, water, everywhere. Or is it? The Sound of Thirst explains the urgency of taking water and waste water seriously in an age where good managem...

FULLY UPDATED FOR 2019 We cannot live without water. But with 7.5 billion people competing for this single unevenly-distributed resource, the plan...