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Water: Science and Issues from Gale Virtual Reference Library
Water: Science and Issues explores the complexities of water in just over 300 essays written by water scientists, professors, educators, and professional communicators. Entries addressing key concepts, current issues, traditional and emerging research, and major legislation are integrated with historical overviews, biographical sketches, and career information.
More than 575 color photographs and illustrations help tell this interdisciplinary story. Selected glossary definitions, sidebars, cross-references, and a short bibliography accompany each entry. Reference aids in the frontmatter, a comprehensive glossary in the backmatter, and a high-quality cumulative index provide additional tools.
Topics covered include
- Agriculture
- Aquatic animals
- Biographies
- Careers
- Chemical and physical properties, processes and applications
- Climate change
- Drinking water
- Earth and beyond
- Ecology and ecosystems
- Economics and commerce
- Federal agencies (U.S.)
- Geologic properties, processes, and applications
- Groundwater
- Human experience
- Hydrology and hydrogeology
- Ice (on Earth)
- Interesting water features
- Issues: national and international
- Lakes and streams
- Legislation, policy, and law
- Microbes: ecosystems and human impacts
- Ocean science
- Planning and management
- Pollution and environmental quality
- Resources: living and nonliving
- Structures and facilities
- Technology
- Using water
- Weather and climate
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Date
September 13, 2010
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