Tag: Thirsty

Free Download Water in Plain Sight: Hope for a Thirsty World (Audiobook)
English | May 02, 2019 | ASIN: B07RB862KN | M4B@64 kbps | 8h 25m | 244 MB
Author: Judith D. Schwartz | Narrator: Tia Rider
Water scarcity is on everyone’s mind. Long taken for granted, water availability has entered the realm of economics, politics, and people’s food and lifestyle choices. But as anxiety mounts – even as a swath of California farmland has been left fallow and extremist groups worldwide exploit the desperation of people losing livelihoods to desertification – many are finding new routes to water security with key implications for food access, economic resilience, and climate change. Water does not perish, nor require millions of years to form as do fossil fuels. However, water is always on the move.

Free Download Marc Weingarten, "Thirsty: William Mulholland, California Water, and the Real Chinatown"
English | 2019 | ISBN: 1947856340, 194260002X | EPUB | pages: 280 | 1.9 mb
Thirsty is the history of Los Angeles and its fraught relationship with water. As a city on the make since the early twentieth century, Los Angeles’ resources fought hard to keep up with its unchecked growth. The city’s water chief William Mulholland built an aqueduct to grab water over 200 miles away in Owens Valley, but it wasn’t enough. Thirsty is the gripping tale of Los Angeles’ epic battles for water, the larger-than-life characters that shaped a city’s destiny, and the man-made tragedy that killed 400 and forever changed the way water would be harnessed and allocated.