Megawealthy William Greele has put together a consortium of CEOs to build a gargantuan pipeline to pump Quebec water to the U.S. Contemptuous of the concerns of environmentalists and confident that his minions have muzzled the press,...
Water-supply
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Auteur:Simon, ChristineSommaire:The self-appointed mayor of a tiny Italian village is determined to save his hometown no matter the cost in this charming, hilarious, and heartwarming debut novel. Vacuum repairman and self-appointed mayor of Prometto, Italy (population...
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Auteur:Sandford, Robert WilliamSommaire:Human beings and industrial-based society are changing the composition of our planet’s atmosphere and causing it to warm at an unnatural and oftentimes astonishingly rapid rate. Much of that warmth is being absorbed by water, which as a...
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Auteur:Sandford, Robert WilliamSommaire:Try as we might, parts of North America may not escape the impacts of the global water crisis. The same kinds of water supply and quality issues that have appeared around our crowded planet are already beginning to present themselves...
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Auteur:Sandford, Robert WilliamSommaire:In this latest RMB Manifesto, Canadian freshwater expert Robert Sandford takes readers to China and shares what it is like to deal with some of the most intractable freshwater problems in the world. It all started out innocently enough...
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Nibi is an Indigenous girl on the search for clean water to drink. Though she is faced with repeated obstacles, Nibi's joyful and determined energy become a catalyst for change and action as her community, and in widening circles, the...
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Auteur:Grabenstein, Chris, Patterson, JamesSommaire:After the evil Corporation attempts to kidnap her, Max Einstein is hiding out in New York. But how can she be like her hero Albert Einstein if she spends her time hiding instead of helping?
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Auteur:Sandford, Robert WilliamSommaire:Provocative, passionate and populist, RMB Manifestos are short and concise non-fiction books of literary, critical, and cultural studies. Fresh water is essential to both the ever-expanding human population and the ever-threatened...
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Auteur:Pierre-Louis TrudeauSommaire:Trois chiffres-clés suffisent à démontrer que les enjeux concernant cette ressource sont désormais vitaux : 1,2 milliards d'êtres humains n'ont pas accès à l'eau, plus de 2 milliards n'ont pas d'eau...
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The Green River, the most significant tributary of the Colorado River, runs 730 miles from the glaciers of Wyoming to the desert canyons of Utah. Over its course it meanders through ranches, cities, national parks, endangered fish...
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Auteur:Wood, Chris, Pentland, RalphSommaire:An incisive critique of Canada’s drinking water gatekeepers.
Canada is celebrated for its abundance of fresh water, and few Canadians question the safety of the water that comes from our taps. But is this trust justified? One... -
Auteur:Phare, Merrell-Ann S.Sommaire:Provocative, passionate and populist, RMB Manifestos are short and concise non-fiction books of literary, critical, and cultural studies. First Nations are facing some of the worst water crises in Canada and throughout North America....
- Auteur:Luby, BrittanySommaire:
Dammed: The Politics of Loss and Survival in Anishinaabe Territory explores Canada's hydroelectric boom in the Lake of the Woods area. It complicates narratives of increasing affluence in postwar Canada, revealing that the inverse...
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Auteur:Barlow, Maude, Fanson, KellySommaire:Passionate and cogent, this could be the most important book of the year for Canadians We are complacent. We bask in the idea that Canada holds 20% of the world’s fresh water — water crises face other countries, but not ours. We could...
- Auteur:Barlow, Maude, Fanson, KellySommaire:
"Passionate and cogent, this could be the most important book of the year for Canadians. We are complacent. We bask in the idea that Canada holds 20% of the world's fresh water - water crises face other countries, but not ours. We could...
- Auteur:Barlow, MaudeSommaire:
We are complacent. We bask in the idea that Canada holds 20% of the world's fresh water--water crises face other countries, but not ours. We could not be more wrong. In Boiling Point, bestselling author and activist Maude...
- Auteur:Barlow, MaudeSommaire:
Selected for The Globe 100 Books in 2013. The final book in Maude Barlow’s Blue trilogy, Blue Future is a powerful, penetrating, and timely look at the global water crisis — and what we can do to prevent it. The global water crisis has...
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Auteur:de Villiers, MarqSommaire:Shortlisted for the Donner Prize and the Evelyn Richardson Non-Fiction Award. Droughts, floods, and contamination of fresh water in the american Southwest, in the Great Lakes region, in Australia, in northern china, in the Middle East,...
