The Great Lakes Water Wars

The Great Lakes are the largest system of freshwater lakes in the world and America's greatest freshwater resource. For over a century they have been the target of controversial diversion schemes designed to sell, send, or ship water to thirsty communities, sometimes far from the source. In par...

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1. Verfasser: Annin, Peter (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Washington, DC : Island Press/Center for Resource Economics, 2018.
Ausgabe:1st ed. 2018.
Schlagworte:
Marine sciences.
Freshwater.
Environmental management.
Conservation biology.
Ecology .
Environmental policy.
ISBN:9781610919937
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Inhaltsangabe:
  • Acronyms
  • Epigraph by Aldo Leopold
  • Dedication
  • Author's Note
  • Prologue
  • Part I. Hope and Hopelessness
  • 1. To Have and Have Not
  • 2. The Aral Experiment
  • 3. Climate Change & Water Levels-Going to Extremes?
  • 4. Aversion to Diversion
  • Part II. Battle Lines and Skirmishes
  • 5. Reversing a River
  • 6. Carp in the CAWS
  • 7. Long Lac and Ogoki
  • 8. Pleasing Pleasant Prairie
  • 9. Sacrificing Lowell
  • 10. Tapping Mud Creek
  • 11. Akron Gets the Nod
  • Part III. New Rules of Engagement
  • 12. The Nova Group and Annex 2001
  • 13. Marching toward a Compact
  • 14. Waukesha Worries
  • 15. New Berlin: The Compact's Forgotten Test Case
  • 16. Waukesha Takes Its Shot
  • 17. Who Will Win the War?
  • Epilogue
  • Acknowledgments
  • www.greatlakewaterwars.com
  • Notes
  • About the Author
  • Index.

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