Rivers category: 174 books
Mekong—The Occluding River
The Tale of a River
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2010
Part travelogue, part history, and part environmental treatise, Mekong The Occluding River is above all else an urgent warning that factors such as pollution, ecological devastation, and the depletion of natural resources are threatening the very existence of the Mekong River. Author Ngo The Vinh...
by Sandra Wagner, Carol Ann Wetherill
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Home to long-forgotten mining towns, defunct fisheries and neglected cabins, the turbulent headwaters of the Upper Rio Grande conceal a largely unknown history. Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys brought their legendary Texas swing to Crooked Creek Canyon's S Lazy U barn dance, while a comedy of errors...
by Tim Davie, Nevil Wyndham Quinn
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2019
The third edition of Fundamentals of Hydrology provides an absorbing and comprehensive introduction to the understanding of how fresh water moves on and around the planet and how humans affect and manage the freshwater resources available to them.
The book consists of three parts, each of fundamental...
by Neil Clarke
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2015
The history of East Shropshire has had a global impact, with Ironbridge and Coalbrookdale acknowledged as the ‘Cradle of the Industrial Revolution’. In this book, local industrial history expert Neil Clarke examines through photographs and old drawings the history of the waterways in this area,...
Running the River
Secrets of the Sabine
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2014
Growing up near the Sabine, journalist Wes Ferguson, like most East Texans, steered clear of its murky, debris-filled waters, where alligators lived in the backwater sloughs and an occasional body was pulled from some out-of-the-way crossing. The Sabine held a reputation as a haunt for a handful of...
by Ray Shill
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
Northern Canals Through Time follows on from the previous title by well-known author Ray Shill, North West Canals Through Time: Manchester, Irwell & the Peaks, as a study of waterway infrastructure, in this case focusing particularly on Lancaster, Ulverston, Carlisle, and the Pennine Waterways...
The Ganges River Basin
Status and Challenges in Water, Environment and Livelihoods
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
The Ganges is one of the most complex yet fascinating river systems in the world. The basin is characterized by a high degree of heterogeneity from climatic, hydrological, geomorphological, cultural, environmental and socio-economic perspectives. More than 500 million people are directly or indirectly...
by Joseph Whelan
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2019
This booklet is a sample of a full-length book. It is Chapter 6 in Ameritrekking and Highpointing: Finding the Lost River Range. If you already have that book, don’t buy this booklet.
This short story tells the tale of the author's visit to Missouri Headwaters State Park. The park is in Montana,...
Britain's Canals
A Handbook
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2010
Profusely illustrated in full colour. Appeals to the layman as well as boating enthusiast. Nick Corble's seventh canal book. With over 2,000 miles of navigable waterway in the UK, Britain's Canals are an asset to be treasure by everyone. Nick Corble has written an accessible guide which will help...
Restoring Life in Running Waters
Better Biological Monitoring
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2013
Despite nearly three decades of efforts intended to protect the nation's waters, and some success against certain forms of chemical and organic contamination, many of our nation's waterways continue to be seriously degraded. The call of the 1972 Clean Water Act -- "to restore and maintain the chemical,...
North East Canals Through Time
Aire & Calder, Calder & Hebble, Huddersfield Broad Canals, Dearne & Dove, and Barnsley
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
North East Canals Through Time follows on from previous titles by specialist author and canal historian Ray Shill, notably North West Canals Through Time: Manchester, Irwell & the Peaks. As a study of the waterway infrastructure of North East England, this volume focuses particularly on Aire &...
Searching Out the Headwaters
Change And Rediscovery In Western Water Policy
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
To the uninitiated, water policy seems a complicated, hypertechnical, and incomprehensible subject: a tangle of engineering jargon and legalese surrounding a complex, delicate, and interrelated structure. Decisions concerning the public's waters involve scant public participation, and in such a context,...
The Atchafalaya River Basin
History and Ecology of an American Wetland
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
In this comprehensive, one-volume reference, Nature Conservancy scientist Bryan P. Piazza poses five key questions:
—What is the Atchafalaya River Basin?
—Why is it important?
—How have its hydrology and natural habitats been managed?
—What is its current state?
—How do we ensure its survival?
For...
Heads above Water
The Inside Story of the Edwards Aquifer Recovery Implementation Program
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2015
Since the 1950s, competing interests for use of Edwards Aquifer resources—the primary source of water for more than two million people in south central Texas—were at war. They had tried many times to resolve their differences about how to conserve, allocate, and use the water, but had always failed.
Finally,...