Water Abuse
(see also Water Politics, Toxic Waste, Corporate Farming, Strip Mining & Water Preservation)
Basics
On the Web: Articles
Water Abuse is Costing the Earth. Ahmed Djoghlaf, BBC (8/24/06).
On the Web: Specialized Sites
Rachel's Environment & Health News.
In the Library: Articles
Bennett, Elena & Steve R. Carpenter. "P soup," World Watch (3-4/02):24-32. On algae blooms resulting from runoff of waste fertilizer & other materials containing phosphorus.
In the Library: Non-Fiction Books
Glennon, Robert. Water Follies: Groundwater Pumping & the Fate of America's Fresh Waters (Washington: Island, 2002).
Micklin, Philip P. The Water Management Crisis in Soviet Central Asia (Pittsburgh: U. Pittsburgh, 1991).
__________ & William D. Williams (eds.) The Aral Sea Basin (NY: Springer-Verlag, 1996).
Nader, Ralph; Ronald Brownstein & John Richard (eds.) Who's Poisoning America? Corporate Polluters & their Victims in the Chemical Age (San Francisco: Sierra Club, 1981).
Steingraber, Sandra. Living Downstream: An Ecologist Looks at Cancer & the Environment [1988] (Reading MA: Addison-Wesley, 1997).
Zwick, David & Marcy Benstock. Water Wasteland: Ralph Nader's Study Group Report on Water Pollution (NY: Grossman, 1971).