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Royston, Angela. The Life and Times of a Drop of Water. Chicago: Raintree, 2006. Somervill, Barbara A. Rivers, Streams, Lakes, and Ponds. Mankato, MN: Tradition Books, 2004. com/100ways Click on your state to find 100 things you can do to save water GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES: W C 31 I agriculture, 6, 15, 17, 23 animals, 12, 16, 18, 25 Aswan High Dam, 14–15 freshwater, 6, 7, 15 governments, 21, 26 Great Lakes, 22 boundaries, 10 Canada, 22 China, 19, 22 Clean Water Act, 20–21 Coca-Cola Company, 25 Colorado River, 12–13, 17 construction.

Somervill, Barbara A. Rivers, Streams, Lakes, and Ponds. Mankato, MN: Tradition Books, 2004. com/100ways Click on your state to find 100 things you can do to save water GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES: W C 31 I agriculture, 6, 15, 17, 23 animals, 12, 16, 18, 25 Aswan High Dam, 14–15 freshwater, 6, 7, 15 governments, 21, 26 Great Lakes, 22 boundaries, 10 Canada, 22 China, 19, 22 Clean Water Act, 20–21 Coca-Cola Company, 25 Colorado River, 12–13, 17 construction. See development. dams, 14–15, 17, 18 Danube River, 22 development, 7, 10, 16, 17, 19–20, 21, 22, 23, 25 Hoover Dam, 17 human waste, 7, 20, 21, 22, 26 hydroelectric power, 13, 15, 17, 18 industries, 15, 19, 21, 22 International Year of Freshwater, 7 fertilizers, 17, 18, 20, 27 flooding, 12, 14, 15, 16 Nile River, 10, 14 nonpoint source pollution, 20, 21 overpopulation, 5, 6 pesticides, 17 plants, 11, 12, 15, 18, 25 point source pollution, 20, 21 A riparian zones, 11–12, 17, 25 runoff, 12, 15–16, 17, 18, 20 salt water, 6 sediment, 11, 15, 18, 20 silt, 15 Sudan, 10 Trans-European Transport Networks plan, 22 United Nations, 7 United States, 20–21, 22 levees, 17 manufacturing.

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