The Earth Around Us: Maintaining A Livable PlanetHenry Holt and Company, 2000 M03 27 - 250 pages Soil contamination...public lands...surface and groundwater pollution...coastal erosion...global warming. Have we reached the limits of this planet's ability to provide for us? If so, what can we do about it? |
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... Aquifer: Water for Thirsty Texans —]ohn M. Sharp, 1:: andlay L. Banner 1 54 From the Catskills to Canal Street: NewYorl< City's Water Supply —}ill S. Schneidennan 166 Sustaining Healthy C0asts—je_;fi'"rey L. Payne 181 16 17 18 19 20 21 ...
... aquifers [conduits of water through rocks] so that he can understand the evolution of groundwater, surface water, and the oceans. The effects of urbanization on aquifers particularly concern him. He is presently an associate professor ...
... Aquifer, a sedimentary rock unit as much as five million years old. This sand and gravel deposit underlies more than 175,000 square miles of plains from South Dakota to Texas and serves as a water source to 12 million acres of farmland ...
... aquifer's depletion.an Other water issues on the plains include the contamination of groundwater supplies and changes in soil chemistry as a result of pesticide and fertilizer use in agriculture, as well as local pollution from the ...
... aquifers from which water today flows at tens, sometimes hundreds of gallons a minute. Nature did New England a favor ... aquifer. The clay keeps the pressure in and the pollution out. The clay separates the deep groundwater that once ...
Contents
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Part II SCIENTIFIC JUDGMENTS AND ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS | 57 |
Part III RESOURCES RECONFIGURED | 121 |
Part IV LOCAL MANIPULATIONS | 197 |
Part V INVENTIVE SOLUTIONS | 255 |
Part VI WHOLE EARTH PERTURBATIONS | 307 |
Part VII GLOBAL PERSPECTlVES | 357 |
Source Notes | 410 |
Index | 443 |