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Author
Publisher
McGraw-Hill
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
xi, 259 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
This DIY guide shows how to collect, store, purify, and drill for water with 10 inexpensive projects, and provides practical conservation information. "Do-It-Yourself Sustainable Water Projects" provides everything you need to know to create your own water projects--from collecting rainwater and air conditioner condensate to properly drilling and constructing pump systems. A list of manufacturers and other resources is included to help locate all...
Publisher
Time Home Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
286 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
Learn from the West's best garden designers how to combine easy-care shrubs, perennials, ornamental grasses, succulents, and groundcovers with spectacular results. Plus, the latest water-wise design strategies, from lawn replacements to low-water patio plantings.
Author
Publisher
Oasis Design
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Revised & expanded 6th edition.
Physical Desc
vii, 154 pages : illustrations, charts, plans ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Create an Oasis describes how to choose, build, and use a simple greywater system (some can be completed in an afternoon). Going deeper, it explains how to integrate efficient fixtures, user habits, plant selection and location, rainwater, greywater, and freshwater irrigation for your soil and site conditions." --Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Red Comet Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaginated) : color illustrations ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
A gorgeous exploration of water and how it is essential to sustaining life on Earth. Using lilting, rhyming couplets, this book explores the many way that water is essential to our lives and the existence of life on earth. But it doesn't stop there! Kids will also learn about the many uses of water - and the environmental danger to water posed by pollution and lack of respect for this precious resource. Kids are encouraged to be kind, not only to...
Publisher
Stetson Engineers Inc
Pub. Date
2023
Physical Desc
i-vii, 65 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color, some folded) ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A summary of findings for the previous water year (2021-2022), current water year (2022-2023), and ensuing water year (2023-2024)-Final"--Cover.
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
AD 540L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm...
Language
English
Description
"Indigenous women have always worked tirelessly to protect our water -- keeping it pure and clean for the generations to come. Yet there was a time when their voices and teachings were nearly drowned out, leaving entire communities and environments in danger and without clean water. But then came Grandma Josephine and her great-niece, Autumn. Speak for the water. Sing for the water. Dance for the water. With moving lyricism and arresting illustrations,...
Publisher
Santa Barbara County Water Agency
Pub. Date
[2011?]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (21 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"This video introduces viewers to the diverse water supplies present in Santa Barbara County through interviews, images, and narration. Topics include history, climate, local groundwater basins, local reservoirs, cloud seeding, state water project, and water conservation. Santa Barbara County has a diverse water portfolio with the majority of water being drawn from local groundwater basins and reservoirs. While each water provider is working with...
Author
Publisher
Island Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
xiii, 233 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In 2000, a transformative climate-driven "megadrought" swept over the Colorado River watershed. By the early 2020s, levels on the river's two largest reservoirs were hitting record lows and threatening the water supply for forty million people. Outside the West, water stocks are stressed even in states with bountiful rainfall such as Florida. From coast to coast, conventional measures to sustain the most fundamental natural resource on earth--drinking...
Author
Publisher
Rourke Educational Media
Pub. Date
c2015
Physical Desc
24 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Language
Español
Description
Tres cuartas partes de nuestra tierra está cubierta por agua. Cómo esta agua se utiliza, de baño para regar los cultivos se dirige. Que viaja el agua en un patrón interminable llama el ciclo del agua.
Publisher
Oscilloscope Pictures
Pub. Date
c2008
Edition
Anamorphic widescreen format (1:78:1).
Physical Desc
1 DVD (83 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Builds a case against the growing privatization of the world's dwindling fresh water supply with an unflinching focus on politics, pollution, human rights and the emergence of a domineering world water cartel. Interviews with scientists and activists intelligently reveal the rapidly building crisis... begging the question: Can anyone really own water?"--Container.
Publisher
NCircle Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (35 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In these episodes from the PBS Kids animated series The Cat in the Hat knows a lot about that, Gecko teaches Sally how to do a better job of hiding when she and Nick play hide-and-seek and Cat takes Sally and Nick to visit friends in the desert to learn how to stay cool in hot weather and to conserve water.
53) The Water Walker
Author
Publisher
Second Story Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations, color maps ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"This is the story of a determined Ojibwe Grandmother (Nokomis) Josephine Mandamin and her great love for Nibi (Water). Nokomis walks to raise awareness of our need to protect Nibi for future generations, and for all life on the planet. She, along with other women, men, and youth, have walked around all of the Great Lakes from the four salt waters - or oceans - all the way to Lake Superior. The water walks are full of challenges, and by her example...
Publisher
City of Santa Barbara
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (ca. 120 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Episodes 10-13 of the local TV show that shows you how to garden in environmentally-friendly, sustainable ways. Covers such topics as incorporating low-water native plants into your garden, low-maintenance lawns, etc.
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