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The wizard and the prophet [sound recording] / Two Remarkable Scientists and Their Dueling Visions to Shape Tomorrow's World by Mann, Charles C,author.(CARDINAL)183729; Pinchot, Bronson,narrator.;
Read by Bronson Pinchot.Presents an incisive portrait of twentieth-century scientists Norman Borlaug and William Vogt, whose diametrically opposed views shaped modern understandings about the environment and related public policies.
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Vogt, William, 1902-1968.; Borlaug, Norman E. (Norman Ernest), 1914-2009.; Environmental sciences; Food security.; Water security.; Energy security.; Climatic changes.; Environmentalists;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The wizard and the prophet : two remarkable scientists and their dueling visions of tomorrow's world / by Mann, Charles C.,author.(CARDINAL)183729;
Includes bibliographic references and index.Includes bibliographical references and index.Two influential scientists, William Vogt (1902-1968), and Norman Borlaug (1914-2009), and their approaches to environmental problems.
Subjects: Biographies.; Borlaug, Norman E. (Norman Ernest), 1914-2009.; Vogt, William, 1902-1968.; Climatic changes.; Energy security.; Environmental sciences; Environmentalists; Food security.; Water security.;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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Sed / by Bajaj, Varsha,author.(CARDINAL)459044; Delmont, Juan Luis,translator.; Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial.(CARDINAL)613933; Vintage Español (Firm),publisher.(CARDINAL)609944;
Includes bibliographical references (page 233)."Minni vive en la parte más pobre de Mumbai, con acceso limitado a agua potable y horas de espera para usar el grifo comunal. Últimamente, el acceso está amenazado por cortes de agua y, como Minni descubre una noche, por ladrones. Sin embargo, en el edificio donde trabaja al servicio de una familia privilegiada, tienen agua potable y hasta una piscina en el techo. Un día Minni se encuentra con el jefe de la mafia del agua. ¿Debe denunciarlo, incluso si pierde su trabajo y tal vez su vida? ¿Cuándo todo se volvió tan difícil?"--Minni lives in the poorest part of Mumbai, with limited access to clean drinking water and waiting hours to use the communal tap. Lately, access has been threatened by water cuts and, as Minni discovers one night, by thieves. However, in the building where she works for a privileged family, they have drinking water and even a pool on the roof. One day Minni meets the boss of the water mafia. Should you report it, even if you lose your job and maybe your life? When did everything get so difficult?010+4-6.Accelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Social problem fiction.; Water security; Water-supply; Water; Water; Poor; Families; Water-supply; Theft;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 4
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Review of the soil and water conservation provisions of the Food Security Act of 1985 : hearings before the Subcommittee on Conservation, Credit, and Rural Development of the Committee on Agriculture, House of Representatives, One Hundredth Congress, second session, March 28, 1988, Logansport, IN, and April 13, 1988. by United States.Congress.House.Committee on Agriculture.Subcommittee on Conservation, Credit, and Rural Development.(CARDINAL)271635;
Includes bibliographical references.
Subjects: Soil conservation; Water conservation; Agriculture and state;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Food, water, and climate change. by World Book, Inc.(CARDINAL)170438;
Population and climate change -- Growing crops -- Eating meat -- Harvesting fish -- Fresh water -- Conclusion."An exploration of climate change and the difficulties people may experience growing food and obtaining fresh water as the average global temperature warms"--Accelerated Reader ARAR
Subjects: Climatic changes; Food security; Food supply; Water-supply;
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Food, water, and climate change / by Ricciuti, Edward R.,author.(CARDINAL)137895; González, Echo Elise,author.(CARDINAL)817477; World Book, Inc.,publisher.(CARDINAL)170438;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Population and climate change -- Growing crops -- Eating meat -- Harvesting fish -- Fresh water -- Conclusion."Planet Earth is warming, causing climates to change. In this book, learn how climate change affects the availability of food and water and how communities are responding to these changes." -- Back cover.1030LAccelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Informational works.; Climatic changes; Food security; Food supply; Water-supply;
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Arrangements for sources of water : introduction : a research project to examine and evaluate arrangements to secure sources of water by water users in selected areas of North Carolina / by Heath, Milton S.,Jr.(Milton Sydney),1928-2019(CARDINAL)126838; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.Institute of Government.(CARDINAL)158318;
Subjects: Irrigation; Water-supply;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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One thousand wells : how the world taught me to love it instead of save it / by Nardella, Jena Lee.(CARDINAL)802744;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Jena Nardella, cofounder of Blood:Water and one of Christianity Today?s 33 Under 33, shares how her passion for saving the world grew into a humbler long-term calling of loving the world in all its brokenness in this beautifully written memoir.
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Nardella, Jena Lee.; Humanitarianism; AIDS (Disease); HIV-positive persons; Water security; Community development; Community development; Christian women; HIV-positive people.;
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One thousand wells : how an audacious goal taught me to love the world instead of save it / by Nardella, Jena Lee.;
Includes bibliographical references.The world opens out. Union Square ; She breathes the air and flies away ; Taking on a mountain ; Finding shelter ; The day I met Bill ; A culture of whatever ; The boy who was dusk ; The risk of yes ; Something better ; Sailboat, sailboat, sailboat ; "There's a girl on the bus?" ; Promising not to promise ; Secrets of change ; The Six Flags miracle -- Coming together. Fundraising by Harambee ; A bridge of water ; Image bearers ; Daughter of Lwala ; The view from the clouds ; Learning what love requires -- Slowly by slowly. We cannot bring the rain ; A hero can be hard to find ; Fool's errand ; The third way ; All the good that you will do ; One thousand wells.Describes how as a recent graduate she partnered with Grammy Award-winning band Jars of Clay to create a nonprofit to provide health care and clean water to HIV-affected regions in Africa.
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Nardella, Jena Lee.; AIDS (Disease); Christian women; Community development; Community development; HIV-positive persons; Humanitarianism; Water security; Chrétiennes; Développement communautaire; Sécurité de l'eau; Séropositifs; Sida; HIV-positive people.;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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Making a splash : how humans consume, control and care for water / by Nelson, Colleen,author.(CARDINAL)610839; Dubé, Sophie,illustrator.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Settlements -- Agriculture -- Ingenuity -- Water security -- Spirituality -- Exploration -- Currents and the climate crisis -- Equity -- Wetlands and water bodies."Part of the nonfiction Orca Timeline series for middle-grade readers, this illustrated book explores our relationship with water and how we use, control and take care of it."--
Subjects: Water; Water consumption; Water use; Water conservation;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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