Clean Water: Books

"Looks at why the world's water resources are at risk and how communities around the world are finding innovative ways to quench their thirst and water their crops."

This book describes the growing urgency of preserving freshwater resources and discusses ways to make water conservation a major priority.

Explores the science behind the headlines involving water, including water's impact on our economy, health, and environment, as well as contaminated water, endangered wetlands, and ocean life threatened by overfishing and global warming.

Provides information regarding the six classes of nutrients, how each is broken down and used by the body, and how much of each nutrient an individual needs.

Examines the dangers that currently face our surface waters, our groundwater, and our oceans.

When the Sudanese civil war reaches his village in 1985, eleven-year-old Salva becomes separated from his family and must walk with other Dinka tribe members through southern Sudan, Ethiopia, and Kenya in search of safe haven. Based on the life of Salva Dut, who, after emigrating to America in 1996, began a project to dig water wells in Sudan.

Told from three perspectives, Sarel, who just witnessed the brutal murder of her parents, Nandi, the leader of a pack of dogs who looks out for her pups and Sarel, and Musa, an escaped prisoner with the water song inside him, struggle to survive in a land without water.

Two expatriates living in a Middle Eastern country, twelve-year-old Adam from Australia and Walid from Bangladesh, must rely on one another when war breaks out and they find themselves in the desert, both trying to reach the same city with no water, little food, and no common language.

Traces the hard life, filled with losses, adversity, and adventure, of Amos, son of a trapper and dowser, from 1833 when his mother dies giving birth to him until 1859, when he himself has grown up and has a son of his own.