International World Water Day, 2011: Water for Cities: Responding to the Urban Challenge
International World Water Day, 2011: Water for Cities: Responding to the Urban Challenge
Description:
Each year more than 1 billion of our fellow human beings have little choice but to resort to using potentially harmful sources of water. This perpetuates a silent humanitarian crisis that kills some 3900 children every day and thwarts progress towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The consequences of our collective failure to tackle this problem are the dimmed prospects for the billions of people locked in a cycle of poverty and disease.
The root of this underlying catastrophe lies in these plain, grim facts: 4 of every 10 people in the world do not have access to even a simple pit latrine and nearly 2 in 10 have no source of safe drinking-water. To help end this appalling state of affairs, the MDGs include a specific target (number 10) to cut in half, by 2015 the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking-water and basic sanitation. In addition, the UN Millennium Project Task Force on Water and Sanitation recently recognized that integrated development and management of water resources are crucial to the success or failure of all the MDGs, as water is central to the livelihood systems of the poor. [source]
Learn about this water, cities, and associated urban challenges through resources in the Orbach Science Library.
Bibliography, with Book Jackets:
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Water management in ancient Greek cities / Dora P. Crouch.
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Toxic legacy : synthetic toxins in the food, water, and air of American cities / Patrick J. Sullivan ... [et al.]. Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier Academic Press, c2007.
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Fuel for growth : water and Arizona's urban environment / Douglas E. Kupel. Tucson : University of Arizona Press, c2003. TD224.A7 K87 2003 |
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The River dragon has come! : the three gorges dam and the fate of China's Yangtze River and it's people / [compiled by] Dai Qing ; edited by John G. Thibodeau and Philip B. Williams ; foreword by Audrey Ronning Topping ; translated by Yi Ming. Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, c1998. TC558.C52 T587 1998 |
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Last Oasis: Facing Water Scarcity / Sandra Postel ; with a new introduction. New York : W.W. Norton, c1997. TD345 .P67 1997 |
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Assessing microbial safety of drinking water : improving approaches and methods / edited by Al Dufour ... [et al.]. London : Published on behalf of the World Health Organization and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development by IWA, 2003. RA591 .A88 2003 |
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The environmental science of drinking water / Patrick J. Sullivan, Franklin J. Agardy, James J.J. Clark. Burlington, MA : Elsevier Butterworth-Heinemann, c2005. TD345 .S77 2005 |
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Water wells : implementation, maintenance and restoration / Michel Detay ; translated by M.N.S. Carpenter. Chichester, England ; New York : Wiley ; Paris : Masson, 1997. TD405 .D48 1997 |
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Running out of water : the looming crisis and solutions to conserve our most precious resource / Peter Rogers and Susan Leal ; foreword by Edward J. Markey. New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. TD388 .R64 2010 |
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Global atlas of excreta, wastewater sludge, and biosolids management : moving forward the sustainable and welcome uses of a global resource / Greater Moncton Sewerage Commission ; UN-HABITAT ; [edited by Ronald J. LeBlanc, Peter Matthews, Roland P. Richard]. Nairobi, Kenya : United Nations Human Settlements Programme, 2009, c2008. TD767 .G557 2009 |
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Endocrine disrupters in wastewater and sludge treatment processes / [edited by] Jason W. Birkett, John N. Lester. Boca Raton : Lewis Pub., c2003. RA1224.2 .E65 2003 |
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Reinventing water and wastewater systems : global lessons for improving water management / edited by Paul Seidenstat, David Haarmeyer, and Simon Hakim. New York : J. Wiley, c2002. TD481 .R45 2002 |
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Water in crisis : a guide to the world's fresh water resources / Peter H Gleick; Pacific Institute for Studies in Developement, Environment, and Security; Stockholm Environment Institute New York : Oxford University Press, 1993. TD345 .W264 1993 |
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Urban Drainage / David Butler; John W Davies; London ; New York : Spon Press, 2004. TD657 .B88 2004
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Water politics and development cooperation: local power plays and global governance / W Scheumann; S Neubert; M Kipping
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Sustaining urban Water resources in the 21st century: proceedings, September 7-12, 1997, Malmo, Sweden / A Charles Rowney; Peter Stahre; Larry A Roesner; Engineering Foundation (U.S.); American Society of Civil Engineers. Urban Water Resources Research Council.; et al. Reston, Va. : American Society of Civil Engineers, ©1999
TD657 .S87 1999
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Water supply / Richard Joseph Stein; New York : H.W. Wilson Co., 2008. TD355 .W385 2008 |
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Managing wastewater in coastal urban areas /National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Wastewater Management for Coastal Urban Areas; Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, 1993. TD653 .M34 1993 |
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Data requirements for integrated urban water management / Tim D. Fletcher; Ana Deletic. Boca Raton, FL : Taylor & Francis, 2007. TD655 .D38 2007 |
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Water reuse: issues, technologies, and applications/ Takashi Asano; et al. New York : McGraw-Hill, ©2007. TD429 .W38515 2007 |
Bibliography, without Book Jackets:
| Cities under water : a comparative evaluation of ten cities' efforts to manage floodplain land use / by Raymond J. Burby ... [et al.]. [Boulder, CO] (Campus Box 482, University of Colorado, Boulder 80309-0482) : Institute of Behavioral Science, University of Colorado, 1988. TC423 C58 1988 |
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| Western water flows to the cities : a sourcebook / by John A. Folk-Williams, Susan C. Fry, and Lucy Hilgendorf ; editorial assistance, Anna M. Deardorff. Santa Fe, N.M. : Western Network ; Covelo, Calif. : Island Press, 1985. HD4464.A165 F65 1985 |
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| Water re-use & the cities / contributors, Daniel Dworkin ... [et al.] ; edited by Roger E. Kasperson and Jeanne X. Kasperson. Hanover, N.H. : Published for Clark University Press by the University Press of New England, 1977. TD429 .W38 1977 |
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| Water for the cities; a history of the urban water supply problem in the United States. [Syracuse, N.Y.] Syracuse University Press, 1956. TD223 .B53 |
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| Fresh water from the ocean for cities, industry, and irrigation, by Cecil B. Ellis and members of the staff of Nuclear Development Associates, inc. Sponsored by the Conservation Foundation. New York, Ronald Press Co. [1954] TD430 .E4 |
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| On the proposed use of a portion of the Hetch Hetchy, Eleanor and Cherry valleys within and near to the boundaries of the Stanislaus U. S. national forest reserve and the Yosemite national part as reservoirs for impounding Tuolumne river flood waters and appurtenant works for the water supply of San Francisco, California, and neighboring cities. A report to James Rolph, jr., mayor of San Francisco, and Percy V. Long, city attorney, by John R. Freeman, civil engineer ... with letter of transmittal to the ... secretary of the interior and the Advisory board of army engineers. San Francisco, July 15, 1912. San Francisco, The Rincon publishing company, 1912. Science Oversize TD225.S25 F7 1912 |
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| Preserving and enhancing communities : a guide for citizens, planners, and policymakers / edited by Elisabeth M. Hamin, Priscilla Geigis, and Linda Silka. Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, c2007. TD160 .P74 2007 |
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| Effects of urbanization on stream ecosystems / edited by Larry R. Brown ... [et al.]. Bethesda, Md. : American Fisheries Society, 2005. QH104 .E34 2005 |
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| Effects of wastewater effluent on the South Platte River from Littleton to Denver / by Norman E. Spahr and Steven R. Blakely ; prepared in cooperation with the cities of Littleton and Englewood. Denver, Colo. : U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Geological Survey : Open-File Services Section, Western Distribution Branch, U.S. Geological Survey, 1986. GB701 W3752 no.85-4124 |
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| Sewering the cities. New York : Arno Press, 1977. TD523.A1 S48 |
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| Crisis in our cities/ Bookchin, Murray, 1921-2006 Englewood Cliffs, N.J., Prentice-Hall [1965] RA566 .H47 |
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| Rainfall collection for agriculture in arid and semiarid regions : proceedings of a workshop / hosted by the University of Arizona, USA, and the Chapingo Postgraduate College, Mexico ; edited by C.F.G.R. Dutt [sic], Hutchinson [sic] and Anaya Garduño. Farnham Royal, UK : Commonwealth Agricultural Bureaux, c1981. S600.7.R35 R24 1981 |
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| Preliminary evaluation of State Water Project Ground Water Storage Program : Bunker Hill-San Timoteo-Yucaipa Basins / by Jan P. Matusak. [Los Angeles] : Dept. of Water Resources, Southern District, 1979. GB1025.C2 .M38 1979 |
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| Assessing ground-water vulnerability to contamination : providing scientifically defensible information for decision makers / by Michael J. Focazio ... [et al.]. Reston, Va. : U.S. Dept. of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey ; Denver, CO : For sale by U.S. Geological Survey, Information Services, 2002. QE75 C5 no.1224 |
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| The changing role of water in arid lands. Tucson, University of Arizona Press [1962] TD353 .W55 |
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| Clean water and the health of the cities. New York : Arno Press, 1977. RA591 .C58 1977 |
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| Dividing the waters : food security, ecosystem health, and the new politics of scarcity / Sandra Postel. Washington, D.C. : Worldwatch Institute, c1996. TD345 .P6697 1996 |
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| Global water resource issues / Gordon J. Young, James C.I. Dooge, John C. Rodda. Cambridge [England] ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1994. TD345 .Y68 1994 |
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| Ground water : hydrogeology, ground water survey and pumping tests, rural water supply and irrigation systems / H.M. Raghunath. New York : Wiley, c1982. GB1003.2 .R33 1982 |
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| Health aspects of plumbing. Geneva : World Health Organization ; [S.l.] : World Plumbing Council, c2006. Online Version http://www.who.int/water%5Fsanitation%5Fhealth/publications/plumbinghealthasp.pdf TH6126 .H42 2006 |
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| Hydrologic aspects of burning brush and woodland-grass ranges in California, [Sacramento] California State board of forestry, 1947. GB665 .A3 1947 |
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| Water for life : making it happen. Geneva, Switzerland : World Health Organization : Unicef, c2005. TD345 .W263 2005 |
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| Water, health, and society; selected papers. Edited by Gilbert F. White. Bloomington, Indiana University Press [1969] TD355 .W6 1969 |
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| The crisis of innovation in water and wastewater / Duncan A. Thomas, Roger R. Ford. Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar, c2005. TD327 .T48 2005 |
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| Method for estimating water use and interbasin transfers of freshwater and wastewater in an urbanized basin / by M.A. Horn ; prepared in cooperation with Massachusetts Department of Environmental Management and the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection. Northborough, Mass. : U.S. Dept. of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey ; Denver, CO : USGS Information Services [distributor], 2000. GB701 W3752 no.99-4287 |
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| Water development and the environment / W James; J Niemczynowicz. Boca Raton : Lewis, 1992. TD353 .W34 1992 | |
Water use and reuse / David Newton; George S Solt; Institution of Chemical Engineers (Great Britain); Rugby, Warwickshire, UK : Institution of Chemical Engineers, ©1994. TD345 .W35 1994 |
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