Best Water Quality & Treatment
"The definitive work on the West's water crisis." "Essential background reading for anyone who cares about the drought ravaging the West and the region's prospects for changing course before it is too late." Resiner captures Western water history in Cinemascope and Technicolor. Beautifully written and meticulously researched, it spans our century-long effort to moisten the arid West. Anyone thinking of moving west of the hundredth meridian should read this book before they call their real estate agent." "A revealing, absorbing, often amusing and alarming report on where billions of [taxpayers'] dollars have gone-- and where a lot more are going .
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Find Best Price at Amazon"This is a timeless work detailing the history of water wealth and distribution in the West."
"Man this book is encyclopedic, with all that implies."
"While the editing causes some revisiting of projects ant times, this book gives a clear picture of the technical, economic, political, and bureaucratic forces surrounding the largest group of public works in American history."
"I recommend this book to anyone wanting to understand the history of the water "crisis" or has the least bit of interest in our nation's history!"
"It is not a perfect work: the author occasionally allows his passion to overwhelm his recounting of the facts, and it detracts from both his case and the flow of the book."
"It's easy to call all cities in the American West "cancers", and state or imply how and how much the West should've been settled, based on 20/20 hindsight and without thought for where settlers could've gone if every inch West of the 100th meridian had been settled only by a very limited number of environmentally prophetic, conscientious stewards."
"Between this book and the "King of California" a very concise history of water in the lands west of the Mississippi and then west of Sierra Nevada Mountains is painted and highlighted with political and bureaucratic bumbling that has lead to the "crisis" that lives on today."
"Although written in 1986, revised and updated in 1993, it is a useful source of history and a means of understanding how we got ourselves into the difficulties we are now facing."
NO SOURCE IS LEFT UNTAPPED IN THIS ALL-ENCOMPASSING GUIDE TO SUPPLYING LIFE-SAVING WATER AFTER A DISASTER You can survive up to three weeks without food, but only three days without water! The Pantry Primer: How to Build a One Year Food Supply in Three Months-Daisy-Luther-1495933415-8.95- LIGHTNING SOURCE INC/LSI-2/1/14-1500-.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"The individual methods of purification are listed, which is a great starting point, but little advice is given as to how to implement them."
"A lot of 'Doom and Gloom', but effectively lets you know what to expect in a crisis emergency - and how to survive through it."
"Drinking water is obviously a big deal, buthe without water on hand for washing and sanitizing, a variety of issues can still arise, including death. If you travel, make sure you have plenty of water on hand (should be obvious, but...) and one can make their own homemade electrolyte drink in a pinch!"
"Great for power outage storing water, how to conserve, and how much need per day per person."
"This book is very complete, everything you want to know about staying alive when things get rough."
"Most interesting to me were the chapters on purifying water and finding emergency sources of water. I highly recommend this book to anyone, especially if they are preppers or if they just find water information such as this interesting."
"30 days for food, only 4 days without water...."
"I am a licensed professional civil engineer in Florida and my specialty of 33 years is water resources. I was going to write a detailed review, but I decided I can't possibly say it any better than "Amazon Customer" did on June 9, 2016: "It is a 200 page book. I got to page 73 (the beginning of Chapter 6) and it was all stories about events where water became scarce and how society broke down."
The award-winning Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond, Volume 1, 2nd Edition: Guiding Principles to Welcome Rain into Your Life and Landscape , is the first book in a three-volume guide that teaches you how to conceptualize, design, and implement sustainable water-harvesting systems for your home, landscape, and community. "Brad Lancaster's Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond is an important book. --Water Engineering Australia. --Patricia Eisenberg, P.E., Past president, Arizona Society of Civil Engineers. "I've been looking for a book like this for a long time.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Both volumes are THE bible of rainwater harvesting -- period."
"Not only is this book filled with excellent information about rainwater collection with great illustrations, it is just fun to read."
"This book is very helpful in planning all your off-grid projects."
"The ultimate book on how to harvest rainwater and other alternative water sources."
"I work as a professional in rainwater harvesting and green construction in Southern Arizona."
"The information is very top notch and practical to use!"
"Even though we live in Hawaii on the windward side of the big island, there is a lot of info that we can glean from theses pages."
Best Environmental Engineering
The 23rd edition of Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater(R) contains over 400 laboratory methods for the analysis of. Dissolved Solids. Laboratories worldwide rely on this comprehensive reference as the trusted source of accurate, proven methodology for analysis of water, water supplies, and wastewater. The methods in the 23rd edition (as in previous editions) are believed to be the best available, generally accepted procedures for analyzing water, wastewater, and related materials. Standard Methods is also offered as a subscription service, which includes all the new, revised, and USEPA-approved methods that are full-text searchable, a discussion group and news about the book, its methods and the oversight board.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Quick shipment."
"I purchased this book used and it can pass as brand new."
"An unabridged reference for methods and procedures for water analysis and diagnosis of multiple issues of water quality and waste water."
"This book arrived in great condition and in less than the time estimated."
Best Waste Management
Part inspirational story of Bea Johnson (the “Priestess of Waste-Free Living”) and how she transformed her family’s life for the better by reducing their waste to an astonishing one liter per year; part practical, step-by-step guide that gives readers tools and tips to diminish their footprint and simplify their lives. It compels us to recognize that our heedlessly wasteful ways are not gateways to prosperity and convenience, but barriers to a good life and a healthy planet. Zero Waste Home will make a difference.” (Paul Hawken, author of Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial RevolutionReviews
Find Best Price at Amazon"When I tried this stuff I did not hold myself to all of her standards and I knew that these ideas would never take over in my home. When I got rid of all my excess in 2011 I made 2,500$ by selling it off on Amazon and got a notable tax deduction for all the donations. When I bought flour sack clothes I did with the intention of saving "some money" but I "knew" we'd always need paper towels. The joke was on me since it just struck me a few months back that the last paper towels I bought was in 2011. Our utilities actually decreased because I had our city come pick up our second garbage can that we no longer needed. A friend of mine just bought one and for the past week I've been getting texts almost every morning when he shaves "OMG WHY DID THEY EVER INVENT DISPOSABLES!!" We tell our kids to clean their rooms and yet when they say it's done we still check the closets and under the bed to make sure they didn't stuff anything there."
"Love love love this book."
"Especially like the reciepes and all the tips on how to tackle peoples reactions.The book has inspiered me to make less waste."
"I've read some of the other "zero waste and minimalist" books but they have proven to be sub-par."
"This book has changed the way I think about my home."
"I have not been able to stop reading this book!!"
"This is a very helpful and inspiring book."
"You might think Bea is extreme in her waste reduction, but don't miss the point."
Best Groundwater & Flood Control
This book provides practicing engineers with water-based environment engineering from theory to practice by presenting the principles of water treatment, wastewater treatment, water reuse, water quality, and overviews of regulations regarding pollution control and drinking water quality. Paul A. Chadik is Associate Professor and Associate Chairman of the department of environmental engineering sciences at the University of Florida.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Very helpful in my engineering classes."
"Cheaper than buying local."
"Thought the book was used, it looked fairly new!"
"This book is a good book if you like to work with the FPS system i.e. not MKS system of units."
Best Agricultural Insecticides & Pesticides
Texas Bug Book is your complete guide for identifying and organically controlling all of the most common Texas insects. HOWARD GARRETT is a landscape architect, certified arborist, horticulturist, and organic practitioner in Dallas.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"The contents of the book are fine, but the book itself is huge."
"I bought this book for my Mom - she loves it and has really enjoyed reading about all the insects and how they can be beneficial."
"My landscape design customers rely on me to correctly diagnose and treat their pest problems."
"For those interested in organic gardening, this book is extremely helpful."
"I don't know...but now that I have the Texas Bug Book I can easily identify most any bug I find."
"As a recent transfer to Texas with an aversion to bugs, I refer to this book often to identify creepy crawlers I've seen around the property."
"great book - photos give excellent description."
"Great resource for organic gardeners."
Best Environmental Pollution Engineering
The Geography of Nowhere traces America's evolution from a nation of Main Streets and coherent communities to a land where every place is like no place in particular, where the cities are dead zones and the countryside is a wasteland of cartoon architecture and parking lots. Kunstler, who writes ably, casts a very wide net: he finds the roots of American individualism in pre-colonial property ownership, decries the abstracting influence of modernism on city architecture and slams road-builder Robert Moses to support his contention that suburbia is a social environment without soul.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"My first intro to Kunstler was watching his equally informative speech on Americas urban design nightmares on You.Tube TED talks. My awakening began in the early 2000 when I got a job working housing construction then later landscaping and later again installing storm doors and windows."
"The part that I loved, first of all, is that there is a new forward in here from 2013-2014. Other than that, this book was so interesting!"
"A lot of text is devoted to New York (both the city and upstate), and it also covers several other places, including but not limited to Detroit, Los Angeles, Washington DC, and Disney World."
"Everything you sensed was wrong with our environment, our homes, our public spaces is lucidly explained here, along with plenty of solutions."
"The book is light on data, heavy on rhetoric, but hammers its point home through anecdotes, allegory, and turns of phrase that make the read analyze what, exactly, they see in these suburban (and some urban) same places."
"Politicians, developers, planners of the pre-New Urbanism era, Big SpOil, and captains of industry all get skewered, and rightly so...to know how to proceed with the future, it's essential to understand who goofed in the past, and what the motivations were. Many of the chapters end in amusing and venomous rants, some of which left me pumping my fist in the air and engaging my treadmill to expire the energy. As I indicated previously, this is essential to anyone interested in the arts of city planning...for those of you out there jobs related to the planning field, the content in here is a great way to have a more informed approach to land use recommendations, planning policy, and engage better in heated discussion during those painful public hearings...or just impress the director and commissioners over lunch."