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*First Place Winner of the Society of Environmental Journalists' Rachel Carson Environment Book Award* "If you're looking for something to cling to in what often feels like a hopeless conversation, Schlossberg's darkly humorous, knowledge-is-power, eyes-wide-open approach may be just the thing...

Water and wastewater operators play a central role in protecting public health, ensuring that treatment processes remain stable, safe, and responsive to changing conditions. This guide provides a comprehensive exploration of the entire treatment pathway, beginning with raw water sources and continuing through clarification, filtration, disinfection, distribution, and residuals management. Each chapter builds a foundation of practical understanding, helping operators recognize how individual processes support the broader system and how adjustments influence water quality. The book emphasizes...

Conquer the California Sanitation System Contractor Exam (C-42 License) provides a comprehensive, technically grounded guide to onsite wastewater and sanitation system construction. This study guide focuses on real-world system behavior, installation methods, and long-term performance considerations relevant to California sanitation contractors working in diverse site conditions. The book covers septic systems, leach lines, seepage pits, sewer laterals, and related components with clear explanations of soil interaction, hydraulics, excavation practices, sequencing, and system protection. ...

We prefer not to talk about it, but we should. Disease spread by waste kills more people worldwide every year than any other single cause of death. Even in America, nearly two million people have no access to an indoor toilet. Yet the subject remains unmentionable. Moving from the underground sewers of Paris, London, and New York (an infrastructure disaster waiting to happen) to an Indian slum where ten toilets are shared by 60,000 people, The Big Necessity breaks the silence, revealing everything that matters about how people do - and don't - deal with their own waste.

Prepare to pass the NCEES FE Civil Engineering Exam with confidence. This comprehensive exam-prep book delivers everything you need to succeed on your first attempt—full-length practice exams, detailed worked solutions, and a realistic CBT-style testing experience modeled after the official NCEES exam format. Engineered specifically for the FE Civil discipline, this book provides: • 2 Full-Length FE-Style Practice Exams (110 questions each) – Experience true exam pacing, question style, scope, and difficulty, just as you will at the testing center. • Detailed Step-By-Step Solutions ...

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.

The CHMM Certified Hazardous Materials Manager Exam Prep is a complete resource for professionals seeking the knowledge, skills, and ethical standards required for hazardous materials management and environmental compliance. Designed for serious exam candidates, this guide provides a clear and practical path to passing the CHMM exam while strengthening your expertise.

In Zero Waste Home, Bea Johnson shares the story of how she simplified her life by reducing her waste. Today, Bea, her husband, Scott, and their two young sons produce just one quart of garbage a year, and their overall quality of life has changed for the better. They now have more time together, they've cut their annual spending by a remarkable 40 percent, and they are healthier than they've ever been.

Driven by eyewitness accounts and combining urban history with a life-and-death drama and a technological detective story, Floodpath grippingly reanimates the reality behind LA noir fictions like the classic film Chinatown. In an era of climate change, increasing demand on water resources, and a neglected American infrastructure, the tragedy of the St. Francis Dam has never been more relevant.

Conquer the Water Treatment Plant Operator Certification Exam: Your Guide to a Career Ensuring Clean and Safe Drinking Water provides a comprehensive resource for individuals preparing to become certified in water treatment operations. The guide covers all essential topics, including water chemistry, microbiology, coagulation, filtration, and disinfection processes, offering in-depth explanations and real-world applications. It emphasizes the importance of understanding water sources and their impact on treatment methods, as well as the critical role of preventive maintenance in keeping ...

In this wide-ranging, character-driven audiobook, science-journalist Emily Anthes takes us on an adventure into the buildings in which we spend our days, exploring the profound and sometimes unexpected ways that they shape our lives. Drawing on cutting-edge research, she probes the painkilling power of a well-placed window and examines how the right office layout can expand our social networks.

THE COMPLETE DIY MANUAL FOR OFF-GRID PROJECTS (2025 Edition) IS YOUR ULTIMATE HANDS-ON GUIDE TO SURVIVING & THRIVING WHEN THE POWER GRID FAILS! 🌟20 FREE BONUSES With Your Purchase! These Detailed & Valuable Resources Are Worth More Than The Price Of The Book Alone (See Details Below)! 🌟 ✅ Do you want to be prepared when - not if - the lights go out...for weeks or months? ✅ Do you want to ensure you and your family thrive - not just survive - during a complete power grid failure? If you answered YES, this essential guide is for you! From David Reynolds, author of the popular "The ...

A powerful investigation into plastic’s impact on human health and the environment, and how we can fight back.

This comprehensive study guide is your key to unlocking success in the FE Civil Exam. Designed with both aspiring and current engineers in mind, it walks you through every essential topic, from mathematics and structural analysis to fluid mechanics and transportation engineering. It offers more than just theoretical knowledge—it’s packed with practical advice, study strategies, and detailed explanations that will make the complex exam content approachable and manageable.

“A tale of rapacious colonialism, Cold War spy games, dazzling technical innovation, big business rivalry, big power geopolitics . . . Niarchos has produced an unflinching, landmark work on the nature of extractive capitalism.” —Patrick Radden Keefe, New York Times best-selling author of...

Water is the most fundamental of survival needs. While many communities around the world are used to struggling with water shortages, many of us have no clue what we would do in this sort of situation.

#1 bestselling author and acclaimed venture capitalist John Doerr reveals a sweeping action plan to conquer humanity’s greatest challenge: climate change. In 2006, John Doerr was moved by Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth and a challenge from his teenage daughter: “Dad, your generation...

How would you like to be the center of a massive outpouring of wealth, innovation, success, and prosperity... the force behind a wave of abundance that rolls over your friends, family, and associates? Now you can be! Despite what the pessimists say, we live in an era of exponential growth and abundance. Astonishing new technologies are driving a new world where the unimaginable is being imagined and turned into reality.

Space entrepreneur turned innovation pioneer Peter H. Diamandis and award-winning science writer Steven Kotler document how progress in artificial intelligence, robotics, digital manufacturing synthetic biology, and other exponentially growing technologies will enable us to make greater gains in the next two decades than we have in the previous 200 years.

Burn looks beyond renewable biomass or carbon capture energy systems to offer a bigger and bolder vision for the next phase of human progress, moving carbon from wasted sources into soils and agricultural systems to rebalance the carbon, nitrogen, and related cycles; enhance nutrient density in food, rebuild topsoil, and condition urban and agricultural lands to withstand flooding and drought; to cleanse water by carbon filtration and tropic cascades within the world’s rivers, oceans, and wetlands.