Displaying the top 100 results that match your query. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/rssapi.jsp?browse=true&N=4294904773+6644 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1686119 Montgomery Clift stars as a government agent who must evacuate a small town to make way for a new dam. When an elderly matriarch refuses to leave, Chuck Glover falls in love with her granddaughter, played by Lee Remick. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1554885 Featuring the men and women who lived and worked at Grand Coulee in the wake of the Great Depression and the Native people whose lives were changed alongside historians and engineers, the film explores how the tension between technological achievement and environmental impact hangs over the projects legacy. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1600564 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1668174 In the scramble to claim water rights in the West during the fevered days of early emigration and expansion, running out of water was rarely a concern, and the dam building fever that transformed the West in the 19th and 20th centuries created a map of the region that may be unsustainable. Throughout the arid American West, metropolitan areas such as Los Angeles, Phoenix, Las Vegas and Denver need water. These cities are growing, but water supplies are dwindling. Scientists agree that the West is heating up and drying out, leading to future water shortages that will pose a challenge to existing laws. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1600008 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1531402 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1620465 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1526907 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1525626 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1442958 Celebrates Theodore Roosevelt Dams centennial (1911-2011). http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1250276 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=968047 Americas infrastructure was once our proudest achievement. Now its a most dangerous embarrassment. Bridges, dams, levees and highways are crumbling, toppling, being washed away, and putting us all at risk. Features interviews with journalists, noted scientists, whistleblowers who risked their lives to speak out, and politicians from both sides. Exposes the rampant collusion, corruption and cronyism within the government agencies whose very purpose is to protect us. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=984742 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1083010 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=951547 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=952554 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=772608 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=948427 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=952485 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=754938 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=995892 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=711160 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=737622 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1015242 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1084096 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=747142 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=737545 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=711777 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1155516 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1082724 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=882531 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=639036 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=661571 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1083158 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=638929 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=710047 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=736792 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=748141 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=685646 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=680628 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=680627 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1083753 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=658102 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=605750 In Deep Water, Jacques Leslie dramatizes the effects of dams to tell the story of globalization and the world we live in. In the great tradition of long-form reportage, he went afield with three experts on dams: Medha Patkar, a charismatic Indian activist who has fought against the completion of a giant dam in India by chaining herself to it each year as the water rises, threatening to let herself be drowned unless construction is ceased; a Berkeley professor named Thayer Scudder, who has spent his career studying the effects of dams in Africa on the tribal people theyve displaced; and Don Blackmore, a man whose unenviable job is to persuade Australian farmers to release water theyve diverted from the Murray River for personal use, in order to prevent a major drought in an area Australians fancy as the next California. In each of these portraits, Leslie brings into sharp focus the political, social, economic, and environmental issues to which dams give rise.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=605748 Viewed by some as symbols of progress and by others as inherently flawed, large dams remain one of the most contentious development issues on Earth. Building on the work of the now defunct World Commission on Dams, Thayer Scudder wades into the debate with unprecedented authority. Employing the Commissions Seven Strategic priorities, Scudder charts the middle way forward by examining the impacts of large dams on ecosystems, societies and political economies. He also analyses the structure of the decision-making process for water resource development and tackles the highly contentious issue of dam-induced resettlement, illuminated by a statistical analysis of 50 cases.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1155348 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=586629 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=631098 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=658260 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1080920 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=517604 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=479812 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=513564 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=519425 Describes the techniques used and difficulties faced in building Egypts Aswan High Dam, which tamed the vital waters of the Nile and changed the lives of Egyptians, as well as 100,000 Nubians displaced by the reservoir. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=512039 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1658479 When the body of an American archaeologist is found floating in the Yangzi River, Ministry of Public Security agent Liu Hulan and her husband, American attorney David Stark, are dispatched to Site 518 to investigate. As Hulan scrutinizes his death, David, on behalf of the National Relics Bureau, tries to discover who has stolen from the site an artifact that may prove to the world Chinas claim that it is the oldest uninterrupted civilization on earth. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1080932 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=447966 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=443853 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=440309 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=435574 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=497540 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=417557 Between 1963 and 1968, environmentalists were outraged when western water interests sought to construct two dams in Grand Canyon as part of the Central Arizona Project. The Sierra Club led a national campaign opposed to the project, which most environmental historians credit with defeating the dams. In the wake of its victory, the Sierra Club has been lauded as the savior of Grand Canyon. Byron Pearson now takes a closer look at history to show that the Sierra Clubs ability to mobilize public opinion did not appreciably influence Congress, where the issue was actually decided. When Arizona congressman Stewart Udall became interior secretary in 1960, he promoted a plan to import water from the Pacific Northwest to California in order to placate that states opposition to the CAP with its proposed dams. When this support dissolved in the face of resistance from Washington senator Henry Jackson, who chaired the Senate Interior Committee, the pragmatic Udall sought passage of a bare-bones CAP bill without the dams before he and Arizona senator Carl Hayden retired. Based on research in archives from all over the country, Still the Wild River Runs will itself be a subject of controversy as it challenges long-standing notions about the power of environmental lobbies. By putting this chain of historical events in clearer perspective, it can give citizens concerned with future causes a better understanding of the political process and what really moves it.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=428377 Two mice investigate why the stream dried up after a big storm. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=437540 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=468739 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=418925 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=428769 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=387586 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=422678 Low dams was originally published in 1938, and is a treasure-trove of information for the farmer or rural home owner seeking low cost structures for impoundment of water, and the design and construction of small water storage projects. The concept of low dams, as covered in this work, includes those structures with heights to the spillway crest not exceeding 30 feet above the natural stream channel. This height is necessarily an arbitrary figure, as the same principles of design would apply to structures of slightly greater heights. Low dams are associated with small streams and drainage areas of limited extent. This manual provides engineers with information and data necessary for designing such work. Book jacket.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=403687 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=422703 A great dam builder, Crowe finished Hoover Dam a year ahead of schedule at a $10.4 million dollar profit on a $54 million dollar contract. He built Parker and Shasta and other lesser dams. He deserves a better bio than this with its poorly, or unedited, text, wretched photos (from microfilm perhaps), and dull writing. Only a few specialized libraries should buy this high priced paperback. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=393910 The campaigns director of a Berkeley-based environment and human rights organization, McCully stands by his assertion that dams have had massive negative impacts on nature and society, and that their benefits have been exaggerated and could often have been produced by less destructive and more equitable means. Here he updates his 1996 tract with recent information from the World Commission on Dams, evidence from the many dams built in the interval, and the flood of literature that is now being published about dams and their impact. Distributed in the US by Palgrave. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=524862 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=403594 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=362731 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=353473 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1027917 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=371984 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=393905 By the year 2000, the world had built more than 45,000 large dams to irrigate crops, generate power, control floods in wet times and store water in dry times. Yet, in the last century, large dams also disrupted the ecology of half the worlds rivers, displaced tens of millions of people from their homes and left nations burdened with debt. Their impacts have inevitably generated growing controversy and conflicts. Resolving their role in meeting water and energy needs is vital for the future and illustrates the complex development challenges that face our societies. The Report of the World Commission on Dams: is the product of an unprecedented global public policy effort to bring governments, the private sector and civil society together in one process; provides the first comprehensive global and independent reivew of the performance and impacts of dams; presents a new framework for water and energy resources development; and develops an agenda of seven strategic priorities and corresponding criteria and guidelines for future decision-making. Challenging our assumptions, the Commission sets before us the hard, rigorous and clear-eyed evidence of exactly why nations decide to build dams and how dams can affect human, plant and animal life, for better or for worse. Dams and Development: A New Framework for Decision-Making is about the future of dams as well as the changing development context where new voices, choices and options leave little room for a business-as-usual scenario.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=297993 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=285021 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=281411 The dramatic story of how an ambitious, hard-driving engineer turned a ragtag army of unemployed into the nations most celebrated workforce. Archival footage and photographs, including interviews with witnesses and historians. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=410851 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=315951 Comprehensive chronicle of the Hoover Dam, one of the most ambitious engineering projects of all time. Shows the footage that documents every step of the monumental work of taming the Colorado to provide water and power to California, Nevada and Arizona. 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