Every Last Drop : Bringing Clean Water Home

Michelle Mulder

Description

★ "An excellent resource on the topic." —School Library Journal, starred review

In the developed world, if you want a drink of water you just turn on a tap or open a bottle. But for millions of families worldwide, finding clean water is a daily challenge, and kids are often the ones responsible for carrying water to their homes. Every Last Drop 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. Maybe you’re not ready to drink fog, as they do in Chile, or use water made from treated sewage, but you can get a low-flush toilet, plant a tree, protect a wetland or just take shorter showers. Every last drop counts!

Sujets

• Earth Sciences
• Juvenile Nonfiction
• Water
• Nature
• Science

Informations

• Publié par: Orca Book Publishers
• Date de parution: 01 avril 2014
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781459802247
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 17 Mo

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Every Last Drop

EveryLastDrop bringing clean water home M I C H E L L E M U L D E R

EveryLast Drop bringing clean water home

M I C H E L L E M U L D E R

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Text copyright ©2014Michelle Mulder All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or by any information storage and retrieval system now known or to be invented, without permission in writing from the publisher.

Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

Mu lder, M ichel le,1976, aut hor Every last drop : bringing clean water home / Michelle Mulder. (Orca footprints) Includes bibliographical references and index. Issued also in electronic format.

isbn 9781459802230(bound).isbn 9781459802247(pdf ). isbn 9781459807129(epub)

1. Water quality managementJuvenile literature. 2. Water resources developmentJuvenile literature. I. Title. II. Series: Orca footprints

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First published in the United States,2014 Library of Congress Control Number:2013951377

Summary: Clean water is a precious resource in a thirsty world.

Ninetyseven percent of Earth's water is in our oceans. Fresh water—like this spring in São Tomé and Principe—is precious. G E T T Y I M A G E S

Orca Book Publishers gratefully acknowledges the support for its publishing programs provided by the following agencies: the Government of Canada through the Canada Book Fund and the Canada Council for the Arts, and the Province of British Columbia through the BC Arts Council and the Book Publishing Tax Credit.

Cover images by Getty Images and Dreamstime Back cover images (top left to right): Gastón Castaño, Jim Holmes, Green Empowerment/Evan Sabogal; (bottom left to right): Centre for Affordable Water & Sanitation Technology (CAWST), Dreamstime, Getty Images

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Contents

Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6

chapter one: a drop to drink

Slurp It Up, Buttercup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Hey, Water! Come his Way! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Well, Well, Well . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 he Forgotten Flus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Scrub-a-dub . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 hree Ceers or Gravity! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Look Out Below . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Full Steam Aead! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 he Great Stink . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Gusing Away . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

chapter two: riding the water cycle

Water, Water, Everywere . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Dinosaur Drinks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Swamping te Swamps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Ceck Out hese Pipes! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 he Water Drain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24