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1.		When the Rivers Run Dry: Water--The Defining Crisis of the Twenty-first Century from Beacon Press Price: $5.34 Customer Review: Any one, world wide, who cares at all about Humanity's future must read this book. Our failure to heed the author's words about the critical condition of the earth's fresh water supply will lead, inevitably, to the disappearance of the human race from the Earth.	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


2.		The Fluoride Deception from Seven Stories Press Price: $11.53 Customer Review: the ZOG, zionist occupied government of America is using FLUORIDE to deactivate your Pineal Gland to close your third eye- the light of truth, so that you arent able to differientate the truth from all the garbage they pour our into the controlled media. perhaps DMT and associates will make things... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


3.		Applied Hydrogeology (4th Edition) from Prentice Hall Price: $140.07 Customer Review: I'm a lawyer with a background in physics, but none in hydrology. I got involved in water law and needed to understand what the hydrologists were saying. I was able to read this book and follow the development with little difficulty. I found that it addressed all the topics and used the same... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


4.		Blue Covenant: The Global Water Crisis and the Coming Battle for the Right to Water from New Press Price: $10.11 Customer Review: I came at this book as an academic teacher and researcher (in the field of Civil & Environmental Engineering at Cornell) who is working in the energy area and wanted to get an overview of the current status and challenges with world water issues, since energy and water are related in many ways.... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


5.		Unquenchable: America's Water Crisis and What To Do About It from Island Press Price: $17.27 Customer Review: When a bond buyer thinks about purchasing a safe revenue bond, they think about bonds backed by water. They don't think about water bottling companies taping acquifers and shipping the water elsewhere. Nor do investors think about where the water will come from to support the water demands of the... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


6.		Water Resources Engineering from Wiley Price: $50.00 Customer Review: One of my coworkers had this book, I kept using it as a reference so I eventually bought my own copy. It is an outstanding textbook and an important reference book to have on hand. I highly recommned it. It is far better than the "Hydraulic Engineering" textbook I had in college.	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


7.		Earth Ponds: The Country Pond Maker's Guide to Building, Maintenance and Restoration from Countryman Press Price: $7.48 Customer Review: This is a lovely, dreamy little book with some great black and white photos. It's perfect reading for a winter's night or for fostering fantasies. It's also a pretty good place to start before you call the county agent or start knocking on the doors of pond-owning neighbors. It's perfectly... more info	Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


8.		Water Treatment Principles and Design from Wiley-Interscience Price: $116.84 Customer Review: Used at all major educational and research institutions. Belongs on every Water Treatment Engineer's desk. Extensive coverage on all areas, but does not cover wastewater. This field distinguishes between wastewater treatment, which is the treatment of water that has been used residentially,... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


9.		The Drinking Water Book: A Complete Guide to Safe Drinking Water from Ten Speed Press Price: $64.96 Customer Review: Been doing research about purifying water for some time now. This book gave me straight forward information on the how and why. Highly recommend.	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


10.		Planet Water: Investing in the World's Most Valuable Resource from Wiley Price: $20.99 Customer Review: So how valuable is water? Ponder this: water has no substitute, regardless of price - the only commodity in the world of which this is true. The water industry is enormous; Hoffman says it's the third larget in the world, on par with oil & gas and electricity in terms of embedded capital. With... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


11.		Design for Water: Rainwater Harvesting, Stormwater Catchment, and Alternate Water Reuse from New Society Publishers Price: $14.75 Customer Review: I was hoping to learn the details of setting up a rain water harvesting system with not only this book but what I have learned by scanning the internet. This book was of little help. It turns out I knew more from sites I found on the internet (with better photos) than the information gleaned from... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


12.		Wastewater Engineering: Treatment, Disposal, Reuse from McGraw-Hill Customer Review: This is the International version. It is great and has both SI and English units. I have not compared it to the hard cover, but this one is great - well worth the money (and savings).	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


13.	[no image]	Particles in Surface Waters: Coagulation and Transport (Crwr Technical Reports, No 232) from Univ of Texas at Austin Center Customer Review: The test of a great book is what you remember most about it years after completing it. "Swoosh.." was an exhaustive study (In depth and breadth) of one of the biggest brands in business history. In reflection, the most salient points were not how methodical Phil Knight and company were in triumphing... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


14.		Written in Water: Messages of Hope for Earth's Most Precious Resource from National Geographic Price: $13.00	Click here for more information


15.		The Nalco Water Handbook from McGraw-Hill Professional Price: $43.99 Customer Review: For those entering the field of water treatment with a chemical engineering or chemistry background, this guide provides an invaluable first look at water sources, treatment technologies and major applications. Specialist books exist to cover every subtopic in more depth if one needs it. I would... more info	Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


16.		The Blue Death: The Intriguing Past and Present Danger of the Water You Drink from Harper Paperbacks Price: $4.74 Customer Review: It is no doubt inevitable for life to go on without water, however we take for granted its pure quality and how it has evolved to get here. Morris has done a great job putting a spotlight towards drinking water in a way that everyone can understand. I am impressed in how he has portrayed its history... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


17.		Water Supply and Pollution Control (8th Edition) from Prentice Hall Price: $129.95 Customer Review: TONS of typos - from grammatical to vital data and labels in example problems. Following such problems is extremely frustrating at times. Lots of things are not explained before they are referred to, causing you to go to the index and find the explanation and flip back and forth. Some things... more info	Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


18.		Water-Resources Engineering (2nd Edition) from Prentice Hall Price: $90.00 Customer Review: The book is very straight forward and explains a lot but does not give enough examples. Overall its a good book to use.	Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


19.		Water-Resources Engineering from Prentice Hall Price: $90.80 Customer Review: The book is very straight forward and explains a lot but does not give enough examples. Overall its a good book to use.	Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


20.		Running Out of Water: The Looming Crisis and Solutions to Conserve Our Most Precious Resource (MacSci) from Palgrave Macmillan Price: $16.50	Click here for more information


21.		The Practice of Reservoir Engineering (Revised Edition), Volume 36 (Developments in Petroleum Science) from Elsevier Science Price: $60.54 Customer Review: Dake really were in his best moment to known something and wrote down, here you can find out the state of the art, even now at 2007 of how to do the things in reservoir engineering, planning, following, just read it, you do not loose nothing, always win.	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


22.		Water Resources Engineering from Prentice Hall Price: $112.00	Click here for more information


23.		Theory and Practice of Water and Wastewater Treatment from Wiley Price: $76.32 Customer Review: This book is better organized than most other texts in this field. The selection of topics is generally good. Coverage of many topics is quite satisfactory. Ion exchange and membrane processes, however, are not explained well. While descriptive subjects (e.g.microbiology, diseases,etc) and those... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


24.		Contaminant Hydrogeology (2nd Edition) from Prentice Hall Customer Review: This is a great introductory book on transport of contaminants in groundwater. Maybe a bit outdated but still a great piece of work.	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


25.		Flushed: How the Plumber Saved Civilization from Atria Price: $0.19 Customer Review: I was hoping to learn more about the history of plumbing--sewage disposal, water supply, rainwater control, and the resulting societal impacts. Instead, the book is 10% content, fluffed with 90% filler to extend into a sellable length "book". Unlike some really good "point history" books such as... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


26.		Dry Run: Preventing the Next Urban Water Crisis from New Society Publishers Price: $15.38	Click here for more information


27.		The Ultimate Pool Maintenance Manual: Spas, Pools, Hot Tubs, Rockscapes and Other Water Features, 2nd Edition from McGraw-Hill Professional Price: $21.98 Customer Review: The Ultimate Pool Maintenance Manual: Spas, Pools, Hot Tubs, Rockscapes and Other Water Features, 2nd Edition is an in depth, easy to read guide for maintaining your pool. I have purchased a few different books on the subject and this is by far the best.	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


28.		Surface Water Quality Modeling from McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math Price: $284.81 Customer Review: I read this book twice, an awesome book for environmental engineers especially if you are studying Mixing Pollutant in Aquatic Systems. You need to have some basic knowledge in environmental hydraulic to get the most benefit from this book, although this book reviews them all at the beginning.	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


29.		William Mulholland and the Rise of Los Angeles from University of California Press Price: $12.00 Customer Review: This book is needed for a report that I have to do for an Archtectural Landscaping class. It is a critical source for me and I was thrilled to find it. It came in plenty of time. Thank you.	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


30.		Water Treatment Plant Design (McGraw-Hill Handbooks) from McGraw-Hill Professional Price: $94.75 Customer Review: This book was published in 1990. It has not been updated and contains old, outdated information regarding technology and regulations.	Customer Rating: 1.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

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