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Uphill Against Water

Author : Peter Carrels
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803263970
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (639 download)

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Download or read book Uphill Against Water written by Peter Carrels and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Uphill against Water, Peter Carrels examines the history of Missouri River water development projects in general and describes the struggle over one of the largest of those projects, South Dakota?s Oahe irrigation project, in detail. Opposition to the Oahe project was intense and well organized. After four years of bitter competition, an energetic and resourceful grassroots group, United Family Farmers, wrested control of the Oahe conservancy district board, a government agency that had been an ardent supporter of the irrigation project. That political triumph led to the only victory in the West by a grassroots group over the Bureau of Reclamation and the irrigation and business establishment.

Uphill Against the Wind

Author : D. W. Pattan
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1468557807
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (685 download)

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Download or read book Uphill Against the Wind written by D. W. Pattan and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2012-04 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sometimes tragic story of an American family told by a character as beautiful as she is shameless. She will show how things are often not what they appear and that the best of intentions can often go hopelessly awry.

Sailing Uphill

Author : Sam McKinney
Publisher : TouchWood Editions
ISBN 13 : 9780920663707
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (637 download)

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Download or read book Sailing Uphill written by Sam McKinney and published by TouchWood Editions. This book was released on 2000 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sam McKinney has spent many of the best parts of his life on the water -- sailing a dory along Canada's west coast, crewing on the deck of a river steamer, shipping out deep-sea in freighters across the Atlantic. In the middle of his life, when he sold the hull of an ocean-going sailboat which had absorbed two years of his love and labour, he looked at his boat-building shed and thought, "Hmm. With all this lumber, I could build a boat and go across the continent, instead". So he did. In the Gander he travelled up the Columbia and Snake rivers, down the Missouri, up the Mississippi and Illinois and on, ever eastward, to New York City. It took him four summers and three Ganders, one of which had to be abandoned in the mud of the upper Missouri, but he made it. This is a lovely and evocative memoir by a perceptive and thoughtful writer.

Where People Fly and Water Runs Uphill

Author : Jeremy Taylor
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780446394628
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (946 download)

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Download or read book Where People Fly and Water Runs Uphill written by Jeremy Taylor and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 1993-02-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on intensive study and thousands of case histories, this remarkable guide opens up the world of dreams by showing readers how to remember and interpret dreams, establish a dream group, learn the universal symbolism of dreaming, and change their lives using their dreams.

Water Must Flow Uphill Adventures in University Administration

Author : Roger Makanjuola
Publisher : AMV Publishing Services
ISBN 13 : 9780976694182
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (941 download)

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Download or read book Water Must Flow Uphill Adventures in University Administration written by Roger Makanjuola and published by AMV Publishing Services. This book was released on 2012-11-01 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Water Must Flow Uphill Adventures in University Administration Roger Makanjuola This is a riveting story of triumph against great odds and tragedies in the ivory tower. The author, once the Chief Medical Director of the Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospitals Complex and the Vice-Chancellor of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife has told a gripping story in his compelling memoirs. The style and honesty in which it is told makes it a revelatory and poignant read. The story is set against a determination to succeed. Spanning a period of about 15 years, the book gives an incisive insight into the challenges of managing tertiary institutions in Nigeria, most of which are still relevant today. It is an account of enormous energy, sincere and creative efforts, unalloyed commitment and love. They say every person has a book in him. This is mine. The book covers a major part of my working life; the period when I was the Chief Executive of the Teaching Hospital at Ile-Ife, Nigeria, and then the period when I was the Vice-Chancellor of the University in the same town. The Book includes many harrowing tales as well as happier times. However, this is essentially an account of the love I have for Great Ife, the hospital as well as the University. It is a love story; a tale of true love -Roger Makanjuola (Author) Roger Makanjuola is a Professor of Psychiatry. He was the Chief Medical Director of the Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospitals Complex, Ile-Ife, Nigeria from 1989 to 1997 and Vice-Chancellor of the Obafemi Awolowo University from 1999 to 2006. He was subsequently appointed President of the West African College of Physicians from 2007 to 2008 and Chairman of the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria from 2010 to 2011. ISBNs: 0-9766941-8-2 (10-digit) --- 978-0-9766941-8-2 (13-digit) Trim size: 6 X 9 ins Autobiography, Health Education, Political History/AFRICA

Uphill Both Ways

Author : Andrea Lani
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496231597
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (962 download)

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Download or read book Uphill Both Ways written by Andrea Lani and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2022-03 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reading the West Longlist for Memoir/Biography One grouchy husband. Three reluctant kids. Five hundred miles of wilderness. And one woman, determined to escape the humdrum existence of modern parenting and a toxic work environment and to confront the history of environmental damage wreaked by westward expansion and the Anthropocene. In Uphill Both Ways Andrea Lani walks us through the Southern Rockies, describing how the region has changed since the discovery of gold in 1859. At the same time, she delves into the history of her family, who immigrated to Leadville to work in the mines, and her own story of hiking the trail in her early twenties before returning two decades later, a depressed middle-aged mom in East Coast exile seeking happiness in a childhood landscape. On the 489-mile trek from Denver to Durango on the Colorado Trail, Lani's family traveled through stunning scenery and encountered wildflowers, wildlife, and too many other hikers. They ate cold oatmeal in a chilly, wet tent and experienced scorching heat, torrential thunderstorms, and the first nip of winter. Her kids grew in unimaginable ways, and they became known as "the family of five," an oddity along a trail populated primarily by solo men. As they inched along the trail, Lani began to exercise disused smile muscles, despite the challenges of hiking in a middle-aged body, maintaining her children's safety and happiness, and contending with marital discord. She learned that being a slow hiker does not make one a bad hiker and began to uncover the secret to happiness.

Engineering Monographs

Author : United States. Bureau of Reclamation
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)

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Download or read book Engineering Monographs written by United States. Bureau of Reclamation and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Little Look on Water Supply

Author : William Garnett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book A Little Look on Water Supply written by William Garnett and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

IRRIGATION WATER MANAGEMENT

Author : DILIP KUMAR MAJUMDAR
Publisher : PHI Learning Pvt. Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 8120348265
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book IRRIGATION WATER MANAGEMENT written by DILIP KUMAR MAJUMDAR and published by PHI Learning Pvt. Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book, now in its second edition, fulfills the need for an up-to-date comprehensive text on irrigation water management for students of agriculture both at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels. The scope of the book makes it a useful reference for courses in agricultural engineering, agronomy, soil science, agricultural physics and environ-mental sciences. It can also serve as a valuable guidebook to persons working with farming communities. The coverage in sixteen chapters brings out different aspects of irrigation including irrigation situation in the world, rainfall, evaporation, water wealth and progressive development of irrigation in India, measurement of soil water and irrigation water, methods of irrigation, irrigation with saline water, formulating cropping pattern in irrigated area and management of high water table. In the second edition, a new chapter on ‘On-farm Irrigation System’ has been included and a few chapters have been updated to include latest development. The book has useful research data and a large number of diagrams for easy comprehension of the topics. The end-of-chapter problems and numerous worked-out examples serve to aid further understanding of the subject. The book also contains an extensive glossary.

Blue Gold

Author : Maude Barlow
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 135157342X
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)

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Download or read book Blue Gold written by Maude Barlow and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-25 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: International tensions around water are rising in many of the world's most volatile regions. The policy recipe pursued by the West, and imposed on governments elsewhere, is to pass control over water to private interests, which simply accelerates the cycle of inequality and deprivation. California, as well as China, South Africa, Mexico and countries on every continent already face a crisis. This book exposes the enormity of the problem, the dangers of the proposed solution and the alternative, which is to recognize access to water as a fundamental human right, not dependent on ability to pay.

Water is for Fighting Over

Author : John Fleck
Publisher : Island Press
ISBN 13 : 1610916794
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Water is for Fighting Over written by John Fleck and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2016-09 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Illuminating." --New York Times WIRED's Required Science Reading 2016 When we think of water in the West, we think of conflict and crisis. Yet despite decades of headlines warning of mega-droughts, the death of agriculture, and the collapse of cities, the Colorado River basin has thrived in the face of water scarcity. John Fleck shows how western communities, whether farmers and city-dwellers or U.S. environmentalists and Mexican water managers, actually have a promising record of conservation and cooperation. Rather than perpetuate the myth "Whiskey's for drinkin', water's for fightin' over," Fleck urges readers to embrace a new, more optimistic narrative--a future where the Colorado continues to flow.

The Dams and Water Management Systems of Minoan Pseira

Author : Philip P. Betancourt
Publisher : INSTAP Academic Press
ISBN 13 : 1623030005
Total Pages : 113 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book The Dams and Water Management Systems of Minoan Pseira written by Philip P. Betancourt and published by INSTAP Academic Press. This book was released on 2012-12-31 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excavations at the Bronze Age seaport on Pseira Island uncovered the remains of sophisticated water retention systems that included the addition of retaining walls to prevent erosion, massive dams with associated reservoirs, and small check-dams to ravines that reached over one hundred meters in length in order to control water runoff and make it available for human use. Agriculture was one of the cornerstones of the Bronze Age Cretan economy, and it is no surprise that the ancient inhabitants of the island went to great lengths to control water runoff and make it available for human use. Despite the application of traditional archaeological survey methods, the full extent of the water management systems was not understood fully as the island's rugged topography prevented intensive and thorough survey of many places. The use of a differential Global Positioning System (dGPS) unit provided the opportunity to take a fresh look at the evidence for water management on the island. The results of this study contribute substantial amounts of new information on the little known subject of Minoan water conservation and control.

Government Gazette

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1304 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Government Gazette written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 1304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper written by and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Agricultural Research

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 602 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Agricultural Research written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

American Environmental History

Author : Carolyn Merchant
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231512384
Total Pages : 505 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book American Environmental History written by Carolyn Merchant and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2007-10-31 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By studying the many ways diverse peoples have changed, shaped, and conserved the natural world over time, environmental historians provide insight into humanity's unique relationship with nature and, more importantly, are better able to understand the origins of our current environmental crisis. Beginning with the precolonial land-use practice of Native Americans and concluding with our twenty-first century concerns over our global ecological crisis, American Environmental History addresses contentious issues such as the preservation of the wilderness, the expulsion of native peoples from national parks, and population growth, and considers the formative forces of gender, race, and class. Entries address a range of topics, from the impact of rice cultivation, slavery, and the growth of the automobile suburb to the effects of the Russian sea otter trade, Columbia River salmon fisheries, the environmental justice movement, and globalization. This illustrated reference is an essential companion for students interested in the ongoing transformation of the American landscape and the conflicts over its resources and conservation. It makes rich use of the tools and resources (climatic and geological data, court records, archaeological digs, and the writings of naturalists) that environmental historians rely on to conduct their research. The volume also includes a compendium of significant people, concepts, events, agencies, and legislation, and an extensive bibliography of critical films, books, and Web sites.

Unruly Waters

Author : Kenna Lang Archer
Publisher : UNM Press
ISBN 13 : 0826355889
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (263 download)

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Download or read book Unruly Waters written by Kenna Lang Archer and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2015-05-01 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Running more than 1,200 miles from headwaters in eastern New Mexico through the middle of Texas to the Gulf of Mexico, the Brazos River has frustrated developers for nearly two centuries. This environmental history of the Brazos traces the techniques that engineers and politicians have repeatedly used to try to manage its flow. The vast majority of projects proposed or constructed in this watershed were failures, undone by the geology of the river as much as the cost of improvement. When developers erected locks, the river changed course. When they built large-scale dams, floodwaters overflowed the concrete rims. When they constructed levees, the soils collapsed. Yet lawmakers and laypeople, boosters and engineers continued to work toward improving the river and harnessing it for various uses. Through the plight of the Brazos River Archer illuminates the broader commentary on the efforts to tame this nation’s rivers as well as its historical perspectives on development and technology. The struggle to overcome nature, Archer notes, reflects a quintessentially American faith in technology.