According to an article in State of the Planet by Peter Glick, “The most serious unresolved water problem is the continued failure to meet the basic human need for water” (Kennedy 61). Olga Cossi states in her book, Water Wars, that, “Water-fresh clean water – has joined the list of endangered species” (Cossi 13).
Apr 09, 2017 · 2 points QUESTION 2 1. Choose the APA reference list entry that is handled correctly. The paper cites a review of the book Water Wars: Drought, Flood, Folly, and the Politics of Thirst, by Diane Raines Ward. The review, titled "Over the Dam," was written by Ann Finkbeiner on October 27, 2002. The writer retrieved the article on the Web site of The New York Times,.
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We should be worried about it because it seems that the only publishable data in life science and biomedical literature are novel findings. I think that's a serious problem because one of the crucial aspects of science is reproducibility of results. The problem in life science is that if you replicate an experiment and its results, no one wants to publish your replication data. "We know that already", is the typical response. Even when your experiment is not really a replication, but it does resemble a previously published one, and your results aren't even exactly identical to previously published ones but they are close enough, unless you find a way of discussing your data under a new light, nobody wants to see your study published. Only experiments that produced seemingly opposite results of previously published studies get a chance to be published. Here, the lack of replication makes the experiment interesting.
The great early sociologist, Max Weber, wrote, "With Newton we became disenchanted and entered Modernity". I believe Weber was right, we remain disenchanted, and are inarticulately lost in Modernity. Many of us seem to sense the end of something, perhaps a futile meaninglessness in our Modernity.
Many problems that in an earlier era might have been easily addressed by a single person will now require a sophisticated set of abilities contributed by different people. The individual contributions must be deeply complementary; the whole must be more than the sum of its parts.
Stress is a big contributor to the increase of diabetes, heart disease and obesity. So it's a much bigger problem than most people realize, but thankfully there does seem to be a growing awareness of the destructive power and cost of stress—in terms of both dollars and lives. Stress wreaks havoc not just on our relationships, our careers and our happiness, but also on our health. On the collective level, the price we're paying is staggering—stress costs American businesses an estimated $300 billion a year, according the World Health Organization. This is partly because stress was also the most common reason for long-term health-related absence in a survey conducted by CIPD, the world's largest human resources association.
But the word "parenting" first emerged in America in the twentieth century, and only became common in the 1970s. This particular word comes with a picture, a vision of how we should understand the relations between grown-ups and children. "To parent" is a goal-directed verb. It describes a job, a kind of work.
Viruses replicate near the boundary of fidelity required to successfully pass information to the next generation. I worry that we will not successfully devise a way to push them over that boundary.
The whole point of drones is to minimize loss of life compared to indiscriminate forms of destruction such as artillery, aerial bombardment, tank battles, and search-and-destroy missions, which killed orders of magnitude more people than drone attacks in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
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In The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck's unhappy travellers span two apparently distinct and opposing worlds: the droughty Oklahoma of the early chapters of the novel and the rich and fertile paradise of Chapter Eighteen and after.
To the cultural geographer, then, lessons from the landscape and human movement in The Grapes of Wrath provide focus for instruction in migration, settlement forms, economic systems, cultural dualism, agricultural land use patterns, transportation technology and social change. To the reader of creative fiction, these same realities generally lie scattered within the pages of this epic of one family's unsuccessful search for a new beginning. But, to the reader of fiction who is also attempting to comprehend something of the underlying systems in this chaos of conflict and flight, the study of this novel provides a window on geographic phenomena broadly ranging from mental maps to economic infrastructures.
Initial reception of The Grapes of Wrath was distorted because the book caused a maelstrom of political controversy due to its castigation of agribusiness and the governmental system that contributed to the Dust Bowl predicament. The press and politicians attempted to discredit Steinbeck's book, accusing him of socialist sympathies. With its political implications now defused, critical study of The Grapes of Wrath has more recently focused on Steinbeck's religious and nature symbolism and the role of his female characters, which earlier critics had considered stereotypical and one-dimensional. But regardless of critical opinion, The Grapes of Wrath remains one of the most respected modern American novels.
Steinbeck's interest in the plight of farmers in the face of rapidly encroaching agribusiness and his sympathy for union organizers became important themes in the novel, along with the struggles of the average person against big business. But beyond the depiction of historical events is Steinbeck's symbolism. Jim Casy, although he is a reluctant preacher, serves as a Christlike figure, leading the Joads and the workers to consider the higher purposes of the community over their own individual interests. Ma Joad, with her considerable inner strength, and Rose of Sharon, particularly in the final scene of the novel, are earth-mother symbols who instinctively understand their roles as nurturers. This religious symbolism—both Christian and non-Christian—pervades the novel. Images of exodus, plague, and the search for paradise, as well as of the sanctity of the land, dominate the farmers' travels to the West.
To sum up: the fundamental idea of The Grapes of Wrath is that of American transcendentalism: “Maybe all men got one big soul ever'body's a part of.” From this idea it follows that every individual will trust those instincts which he shares with all men, even when these conflict with the teachings of orthodox religion and of existing society. But his self-reliance will not merely seek individual freedom, as did Emerson. It will rather seek social freedom or mass democracy, as did Whitman. If this mass democracy leads to the abandonment of genteel taboos and to the modification of some traditional ideas of morality, that is inevitable. But whatever happens, the American will act to realize his ideals. He will seek to make himself whole—i.e., to join himself to other men by means of purposeful actions for some goal beyond himself.
The whole tone of movement in The Grapes of Wrath is one of regretful departure. Except for occasional, if powerful, allusions to a better life in California voiced by the young Joads and Grampa, the family leaves their Oklahoma sharecropping past with reluctance. 8 This wrenching of the move is not limited to the Joads. Steinbeck creates one of his strongest characters in the person of Muley, one of the few people the reader meets who has decided not to move to California. The combination of Ma Joad and Muley—although they never share the same stage—is effective in making an observer realise that this process of uprooting at a time of crisis has deep and profound psychological costs far beyond the economic dislocation associated with such a migration.
The underlying motivation for both the Okies' behavior and that of the agribusiness concerns , however, can ultimately be analyzed in hydrological terms. Rainfall in the Southwest in the 1930s fell well within historical norms; cycles of drought are more common than periods of heavy rain. Drought did not cause the Dust Bowl—a more accurate description of the region's troubles should instead focus on the Depression and local agricultural mismanagement. The Depression, though, did not seriously affect the Great Plains until the onset of the Dust Bowl. If local farmers had been able to continue planting and harvesting cash crops at the rate they had in the 1920s, the Plains might have escaped the worst of the Depression. Unfortunately, by the end of the decade, they had borrowed heavily and expanded their acreage to maximize annual yields. When the crops failed and the “black blizzards” came, the national plague of poverty and joblessness infected the Plains states as well.
Growing demand for water is the first of the components of a water scarcity situation. Population growth increases demand for water for the production of food, but also fordomestic and for industrial uses. This adds social and economical parameters to water related problems including scarcity. The three sectors compete for water allocation and this competition will get more intense in the future. In fact, population growth and rapid development comprise the major factors affecting water resources and their sustainability in the world.
Water scarcity occurs when the demand for water exceeds the available amount of water. Water scarcity also occurs when the poor quality of water limits its usability. Therefore, water quantity is not the only benchmark indicator for scarcity, water quality also has a bearing (UNDP 2006).
Al-Alawi (1998) in his study of privatization in gulf countries, he concluded that the sudden rush towards privatization has resulted in unfortunate obstacles mainly attributed to: 1 ‘No thorough planning and inadequate preparation by governments in defining their long term objectives of privatization. 2 International consultants and developers imposing privatization structures that worked elsewhere in the world, but are not suitable for the Gulf States. 3 High levels of subsidies for water and electricity. 4 Absence of real competition resulting in very high unit costs proposed by developers of independent electricity and water projects. 5 Scarcity of water in this area of the world, and the requirements of desalination processes, dictate the need for combined planning and operation of water and electricity utilities in order to maximize efficiencyand reduce overheads. 6 Unique local problems such as legislation, risks, lack of local knowledge’ etc. In Kuwait, for example, the same water problem persisted under privatization, which was expected to message them.
The thesis looks at water resources and supply in United Arab Emirates in terms of water scarcity, sustainability and governance. The arid climate and low annual rainfall of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) present several difficulties for sustainability of the nation’s water supply.
Water is the most important natural resource on our planet Earth. It is the basis of life that all organisms depend on for survival. Water is present on Earth as fresh or saltwater. About 97.5% of water is saltwater with a remaining 2.5% of fresh water .
The world's population, under the current growth trajectory, is expected to reach nearly 9 billion by the year 2042 (Worldometers; IDB) with an average growth rate of about 2.19% (Nielsen, 2006; IDB). However, the annual renewable water resources in the world amount to about 48,619 km3 only (Gleick, 1998).
Privatization, a Water Governance Model. Water privatization started in most developing countries in parallel to water reforms in the 1980s (Castro, 2007). Privatization of water is becoming very popular in different parts of the world particularly in Latin American countries (Castro, 2007).