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Fresh Water - Resources
WEBSITES
World Water Crisis
The world's supply of fresh water is running out. Already one person in five has no access to safe drinking water. Click on the map to read about some of the world's water flashpoints.
www.thewaterpage.com" Visit this site to learn about sustainable water use and management in Africa and other developing regions."
www.thewaterpage.com/link_graphic.htm For 100s of online links regarding water all over the world
The American Waterworks Association provides a wealth of information about water-related topics, including conservation, research, landscaping, access to healthy drinking water and more. www.awwa.org/community/links.cfm
Learn about why there is a water crisis, the seriousness of the crisis, and what we can do to start remedying it. www.earthday.net/goals/waterfacts.stm
WaterAid is an international NGO dedicated exclusively to the provision of safe domestic water, sanitation and hygiene education to the world's poorest people.
BOOKS
"Troubled Water" by Anita Roddick
"Every Drop For Sale" by Jeffrey Rothfeder
"Water Follies" by Robert Glennon
"Power Politics" by Arundhati Roy
"Water Wars" by Diane Raines Ward
"Fresh Water" by E. C. Pielou
"Water: The Fate of Our Most Precious Resource" by Marq de Villiers
"Hydro-Politics In The Third World" by Arun P. Elhance
"When Smoke Ran Like Water" by Devra Davis
"Blue Gold" by Maude Barlow and Tony Clark
"Last Oasis: Facing Water Scarcity" by Sandra Postel
"Whose Water Is It?" Edited by Bernadette McDonald and Douglas Simon
"Rivers for Life: Managing Water for People and Nature"
by Sandra Postel and Brian Richter
"Achieving Sustainable Freshwater Systems: A Web of Connections"
by Marjorie M. Holland, Elizabeth R. Blood, Lawrence R. Shaffer
"Keepers of the Spring : Reclaiming Our Water in an Age of Globalization"
by Fred Pearce
"The Riverkeepers" by John Cronin and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.