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Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet Mark Lynas See book keywords and concepts

Sun and snow in California With no major glaciers outside Alaska, the United States might imagine itself immune to the water crisis bearing down on Peru. It could not be more wrong. Towns and cities all the way up America's west coast are heavily dependent on frozen mountain water - not from glacial ice this time, but from winter snows. In the great river basins of California, Washington and Oregon, far more water is stored in snow-pack during the spring and early summer than in man-made reservoirs behind dams.

Feeding the eight billion However serious the water crisis, it is highly unlikely that anyone will starve in the western US with two degrees of global warming. Some areas of the continent may even benefit from better growing conditions. Moreover, as the richest country in the world, America's purchasing power in world food markets will ensure that its citizens survive even the toughest droughts for the foreseeable future.

Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century Alex Steffen See book keywords and concepts

Water mwi No matter where we live, there is a water crisis unfolding around us. For some, this crisis is a matter of life and death. Globally, one in five of us does not have access to clean drinking water. Two in five do not have adequate sanitation facilities—water to wash with and to clean with, or even a safe place to answer nature's call. Hundreds of millions of farmers lack adequate water and/or the proper tools for irrigating their fields. Many more are struggling with the effects of the mass privatization of water.

The most direct way for any of us to confront the water crisis is to use less water. That doesn't mean we should measure out our lives in thimbles, or take showers with stopwatches. Instead, it means making the systems in our homes work for us. When we install the right technologies, a little bit of mindfulness goes a long way. Low-flow Water Fixtures ¦Mi Low-flow showerheads are not as wimpy as they sound —by forcing air into the water flow, they reduce the amount of water used, but still produce a strong spray.

Hope's Edge: The Next Diet for a Small Planet Jeremy P. Tarcher See book keywords and concepts

The water crisis was touching everybody here—the schools were even serving kids bottled water," Jean-Yves says. "We had to carry our own water to our houses. It was like we were returning to the Middle Ages." Seeing the connection between what was happening to the community's water and how they were farming, Jean-Yves' farmers network volunteered to test alternatives. "As a farmer, I felt responsible," Jean-Yves says. "So we halved the chemicals we were using for corn." At the end of five years, an independent office tested whether they had reduced nitrates in the river, Jean-Yves explains.

Prescription for Dietary Wellness: Using Foods to Heal Phyllis A. Balch, CNC See book keywords and concepts

The United Nations Environmental Program says that there is a global water crisis, and that this is the most immediate and serious human health problem facing the More Water Worries The Federal Bureau of Investigation says that bioterrorist threats to the nation's drinking water are a possibility that must be considered. Many toxic biological organisms and chemical substances could be introduced to the water supply. No drinking water treatment products have been tested or certified for effectiveness in reducing chemical or biological health threats.

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