The water crisis /
A compilation of articles dealing with the nature of water ; the water supply, pollution and other factors limiting it ; methods of increasing the supply, and sources of financing them.
| Основен автор: | Nikolaieff, George A. |
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| Формат: | Книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
New York :
H.W. Wilson Co.,
1967.
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| Серия: |
Reference shelf ;
v. 38, no. 6. |
| Предмети: |
Съдържание:
- pt. 1. Dimensions of crisis: The nature of water / Charles E. Renn (The Johns Hopkins Magazine)
- Water needs of man / Charles C. Bradley (Science)
- Chief users of water
- The hydrologic cycle / Jack Hirshleifer ... [et al.]
- Some population limits / Charles C. Bradley (Science)
- pt. 2. Water supplies and their limitations: The rain must fall, unevenly / John Lear (Saturday Review)
- When the rains don't fall (Unesco Courier)
- Rainfall and erosion / W.E. Bullard (Journal Water Pollution Control Federation)
- The factor of waste / Charles C. Bennett (Saturday Review)
- Needs versus shortages (Senior Scholastic)
- pt. 3. The growing sewer: What price greatness? / Lyndon B. Johnson
- Pollution from industries and cities / Donald E. Carr (The Atlantic)
- Sources of natural pollution
- The visible tragedy
- Financial loss / Gerald E. Snook (Cleveland Plain Dealer)
- Types of pollutants / Allen V. Kneese
- How clean should waters be? / George B. Angevine
- pt. 4 The battle for more and cleaner water: Water shortage is a frame of mind / William Bowen (Fortune)
- Prevention at the source / Lyndon B. Johnson
- Financing the drive on pollution / John H. Allan (New York TImes)
- Cleanup in the Ohio Valley
- New era on the Ohio River / Paul Underwood (New York Times)
- How Du Pont meets the challenge
- Plans to increase supplies / James E. Bylin (Wall Street Journal)
- Desalting plants / Gladwin Hill (New York Times)
- pt. 5. Who pays?: How standards are set
- The growing federal role / Richard L. Worsnop (Editorial Research Reports)
- Federal agencies (Power)
- More money / Burt Schorr (Wall Street Journal)
- West's water fight / James E. Bylin (Wall Street Journal)
- Weapons against pollution / Jonathan Spivak (Wall Street Journal)
- How Germany keeps the Ruhr River clean (U.S. News & World Report)
- Who pays the clean water bill? / Richard D. Hoak
- A river dies, and is born again / Fred J. Cook (New York Times Magazine)
- For some, the cleanup means a fortune / Robert A. Wright (New York Times)
- pt. 6. Improving on nature: What is clean water? / David Vienna (New York Times)
- Reusing water / Gladwin Hill (New York Times)
- The fluoridation debate (Senior Scholastic)
- Water reclamation efforts
- The Aswan High Dam (The Atlantic)
- A global water information system / Daniel Behrman (Unesco Courier).