Water & Drought
Selected Resources
What are you doing to conserve water and get informed about water issues?
Books
333.91 CAR Water and the California Dream: Choices for the New Millennium (2000) by David Carle
333.91 COM Comparing Futures for the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta (2010) by Jay R. Lund et al.
333.91 FIS The Big Thirst: The Secret Life and Turbulent Future of Water (2011) by Charles Fishman
333.91 GLE Water Follies: Groundwater Pumping and the Fate of America's Fresh Waters (2002) by Robert Glennon
333.91 HOE The Water Footprint of Modern Consumer Society (2013) by Arjen Y. Hoekstra
333.91 MCC Water and the Shaping of California: A Literary, Political, and Technological Perspective on the Power of Water, and How the Effort to Control It has Transformed the State (2000) by Sue McClurg
333.91 WAT Water (2006) edited by Carrie Fredericks
333.91 WAT Water (2010) edited by Jacqueline Langwith
333.9104 MAR Groundwater Around the World: A Geographic Synopsis (2013) by Jean Margat and Jac van der Gun
333.912 SAL Drinking Water: A History (2012) by James Salzman
363.6 GLE Unquenchable: America's Water Crisis and What to Do About It (2009) by Robert Glennon
363.61 CAR Introduction to Water in California (2009) by David Carle
363.61 POW Dead Pool: Lake Powell, Global Warming, and the Future of Water in the West (2008) by James Lawrence Powell
363.61 WAT Water Supply (2008) edited by Richard Joseph Stein
553.7 ALT Water: No Longer Taken for Granted (2009) by Sandra M. Alters
553.7 SOL Water: The Epic Struggle for Wealth, Power, and Civilization (2010) by Steven Solomon
Databases
Academic Search Premier (through EBSCO)
Biological and Agricultural Index Plus (through EBSCO)
GreenFILE (through EBSCO)
OmniFile Full Text Select (through EBSCO)
Academic One File
CQ Researcher
LexisNexis Academic Universe
Newsbank
Newspaper Source Plus (through EBSCO)
Opposing Viewpoints
SIRS Researcher
Websites
California Depatment of Food and Agriculture, http://www.cdfa.ca.gov/drought/
Pacific Institute, http://www.californiadrought.org/
Public Policy Institute of California, http://www.ppic.org/
Save Our Water, http://saveourwater.com/
State of California, http://www.ca.gov/drought/
UC Davis California Drought Watch, http://drought.ucdavis.edu/
US Drought Monitor, http://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/
US Drought Portal, http://www.drought.gov/drought/area/ca
USGS California Water Science Center, http://ca.water.usgs.gov/
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