Water Money

After his son gives him a pair of "X-ray" glasses as a gift, Martin Blackstone tries them on just for the hell of it - and all they do is give him a headache...until he sees things he can’t possibly be seeing. Glimpses of things on the other side of a wall or beneath someone’s clothing. He wants to believe it’s just his overactive imagination, but the “X-ray” specs actually work.

Few territories are as hotly contested as the western Pacific Ocean. Across the 1.5 million square mile expanse of the East and South China Sea, six countries lay overlapping claims that date back centuries. China, Vietnam, Korea and Indonesia assert their right to trade routes, deploying military garrisons to defend disputed territories while Japan, Vietnam and the Philippines resist their expansion.

Most of us give little thought to the hidden systems that bring us water and take it away when we’re done. But these underappreciated marvels of engineering face an array of challenges that cannot be solved without a fundamental change to our relationship with water.

When you turn on the tap or twist the cap, you might not give a second thought to where your drinking water comes from. But how it gets from the ground to your glass is far more complex than you might think. Is it safe to drink tap water? Should you feel guilty buying bottled water? Is your water vulnerable to terrorist attacks? With springs running dry and reservoirs emptying, where is your water going to come from in the future? In Drinking Water, Duke professor James Salzman shows how drinking water highlights the most pressing issues of our time.

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.

Get off-the-grid and become self-sufficient without leaving your backyard! Cultivating a sustainable homestead off the grid has become more and more popular as many people are searching for alternatives to the trappings of modern society. Off-Grid Living and the Self-Sufficient Backyard is your complete guide to transitioning off the grid. It doesn't matter if you are just getting started or are already an experienced homesteader. This audiobook will serve as your guide for creating your backyard mini-farm and planning for your off-grid life.

In my book Off Grid RV Living: How to Live off the Grid Full Time on Your Own Terms, I will teach you everything I know about how to go completely off-grid and be in control of your own destiny. I will teach you about solar power, gardening, farming, setting up land for homesteading, and how to boondock in an RV in a city or in the wild.

Do you dream of leaving the “real world” behind and leading a simpler life? More and more people are choosing to live off-grid, grow their own food, and provide their electricity independently. No matter what your personal reason is, achieving this lifestyle means total independence and freedom. The options for living off-grid are endless - but it does take knowledge, skills, and planning. With detailed tips and information on everything from laws and taxes to hunting and fishing, this thorough book will take your off-grid life from a pleasant daydream to your blissful reality.

Bottled & Sold shows how water went from being a free natural resource to one of the most successful commercial products of the last 100 years - and why we are poorer for it. It's a big story and water is big business. Every second of every day in the United States, a thousand people buy a plastic bottle of water, and every second of every day a thousand more throw one of those bottles away. That adds up to more than 30 billion bottles a year and tens of billions of dollars of sales. Are there legitimate reasons to buy all those bottles?

Think it can’t happen to you? Think again. If you have ever experienced the corruption, lies and deceit of Child Protective Services (CPS) workers in the United States of America today, then you know the real dangers this brave new author faces in publishing this, her very first book. This book offers valuable measures you can take to avoid encounters with the Child Protective Services social workers if you are a parent, even if you are not in the United States, as CPS corruption and fraud are an epidemic worldwide.

This book contains proven steps and strategies on how to regrow food scraps in water, without the mess of dealing with soil. Food scraps, like root ends of vegetables such as onions, celery, leeks, lettuce, and bok choy; buds of potatoes and ginger; and leaf tops of pineapple, commonly find their way into the trash bin. Nifty tactics such as those presented in this book, however, can finally help you lessen your contribution to the biodegradable waste that humans dump God knows where as well as the bulk of your monthly food budget spent on produce.

Harvesting rainwater doesn’t have to be a complicated process, and by following the right principles, you can not only create your own RWH system that works for your requirements, but also scale it when you need to expand–all without wasting time or money.

¿Eres una de esas personas que intentó manifestar algo, pero no funcionó? ¡Este libro es para ti! Este libro describe tres técnicas de manifestación con agua; técnicas simples y muy poderosas que ayudarán a manifestar tus mayores deseos en tu vida. ¿Por qué agua? Se sabe que el agua es un conductor de información energética y, desde tiempos muy remotos, los humanos utilizan el agua con fines curativos; nuestro cuerpo es 80 por ciento de agua, el agua es la base de la vida.

Where fresh water appears to be abundant and generally accessible, chronic pollution may be relatively ignored as a public issue. Yet there are those whose lives, livelihoods, and traditions are touched directly by the destructive albeit essential relationship between humans and water.

Avis à tous ceux qui considèrent prendre bientôt leur retraite, il ne s’agit pas d’un nouveau passage de votre vie ou encore moins de l’aboutissement de votre carrière professionnelle. La retraite n’est rien de moins qu’une nouvelle vie. Et si une bonne préparation financière peut aider à conforter cette nouvelle étape de votre cheminement personnel, c’est loin d’être une panacée contre les dangers qui vous guettent.

Dirty, Sacred Rivers explores South Asia's increasingly urgent water crisis, taking readers on a journey through North India, Nepal and Bangladesh, from the Himalaya to the Bay of Bengal. The book shows how rivers, traditionally revered by the people of the Indian subcontinent, have in recent decades deteriorated dramatically due to economic progress and gross mismanagement.

As a changing climate threatens the whole country with deeper droughts and more furious floods that put ever more people and property at risk, Texas has become a bellwether state for water debates. Will there be enough water for everyone? Is there the will to take the steps necessary to defend ourselves against the sea? Is it in the nature of Americans to adapt to nature in flux?

In this powerful audiobook, you’ll uncover an exploration of dropshipping and how you can take advantage of Amazon’s business empire to make passive income. Covering everything from fundamentals of dropshipping to how you can find a niche market, price your products the right way, and scale your business like a pro, this book arms you with the essential tools you need to succeed with dropshipping!

Do you want to create a profitable side hustle? Looking for practical, easy passive income ideas that have the potential to make big returns? Passive income is a brilliant, highly effective way to boost your financial security and freedom. It lets you make money while you sleep, without even thinking about working. But how do you create passive income, and what strategies are best for you? Inside this powerful guide, you’ll uncover the best and most up-to-date passive income ideas for 2020.

The Science of Getting Rich is a book written by the New Thought Movement writer Wallace D. Wattles. The book is still in print. The text is "divided into 17 short, straight-to-the-point chapters that explain how to overcome mental barriers, and how creation, rather than competition, is the hidden key to wealth attraction."