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Author
Series
Alex Cross novels volume 18
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Detective Alex Cross is thwarted at every turn while he attempts to investigate the abduction of the president's son and daughter and also discovers a deadly contagion released in the capital's water supply that foreshadows a larger, more devastating attack.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"New York Times bestselling author Seth M. Siegel shows how our drinking water got contaminated, what it may be doing to us, and what we must do to make it safe. If you thought America's drinking water problems started and ended in Flint, Michigan, think again. From big cities and suburbs to the rural heartland, chemicals linked to cancer, heart disease, obesity, birth defects, and lowered IQ routinely spill from our taps. Many are to blame: the EPA,...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Through a series of disastrous decisions, the state government had switched the city|s water supply to a source that corroded Flint|s aging lead pipes. Complaints about the foul-smelling water were dismissed: the residents of Flint, mostly poor and African American, were not seen as credible, even in matters of their own lives. It took eighteen months of activism by city residents and a band of dogged outsiders to force the state to admit that the...
4) Poisoned water: how the citizens of Flint, Michigan, fought for their lives and warned the nation
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
243 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Publisher Annotation: In 2014, the residents of Flint, Michigan noticed that their water was a copper hue and smelled and tasted like sulfur. Some began using bottled water, but many of those who didn?t started to experience rashes, hair loss, and a frightening, debilitating illness. Still, city officials claimed water tests were normal. It wasn?t until nearly a year later when Flint resident Lee Ann Walters sent a water sample to the Environmental...
Publisher
The Video Project
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (25 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
This film goes beyond the news headlines to spotlight the impact of the devastating water contamination crisis on the people of Flint, Michigan. The film highlights the stories of residents who were personally injured, along with the work of local organizations and individuals that rallied to support them. Flint is a city of 100,000 people, with 41% living below the poverty line and an African-American majority. The city switched in 2014 to water...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
xii, 386 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1998, Bilott was a lawyer specializing in helping big corporations stay on the right side of environmental regulations. He received a call from a West Virginia farmer, Earl Tennant, who was convinced the creek on his property was being poisoned by runoff from a DuPont landfill. Bilott agreed to help Tennant, and discovered documents going back fifty years on the harmful effects of the man-made chemical PFOA (one of a class of chemicals called PFAS)...
Author
Publisher
Norwood House Press
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
1010L
Physical Desc
48 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In many countries, safe drinkable water is not a guarantee. This book looks at the challenges to the world water supply, and the far-reaching environmental, commercial and political costs if those challenges are not met. Among the topics covered are problems of population growth and climate change"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Capstone Press, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
32 pages : chiefly color illustrations, color map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"More than 70 percent of Earth is covered in water. Yet only about 3 percent of it is freshwater that people can use. Every year, parts of the world suffer through severe droughts, and millions of people don't have easy access to clean drinking water. Why is there a shortage of clean and healthy water? In this nonfiction graphic novel, Max Axion and the Society of Super Scientists travel around the world to learn the reasons behind the global water...
Author
Publisher
One World
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
x, 364 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"From the heroic pediatrician who rallied a community and brought the fight for justice to national attention comes a powerful firsthand account of the Flint water crisis--a dramatic story of failed democracy and inspiring citizen advocacy and action. In the heart of the world's wealthiest nation, one hundred thousand people were poisoned by the water supply for two years--with the knowing complicity of their government. Written by the crusading pediatrician...
12) A civil action
Publisher
Touchstone Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (115 min.) : sound, color ; 3 3/4 cm
Language
English
Description
A high-priced personal injury attorney represents eight families whose children died of leukemia after large corporations let toxic waste leak into the water supply in the Boston area. He puts his career, reputation and all that he owns on the line for the rights of his clients.
14) Erin Brockovich
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
[2000]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 132 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Erin Brockovich is a feisty young mother who convinces attorney Ed Masry to hire her and promptly stumbles upon a law case against a giant corporation for water pollution. Erin's determined to take on this powerful adversary even though no law firm has dared to do it before. The two begin a legal fight that will bring a small town to its feet and a huge company to its knees.
15) The crazies
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After a strange toxin contaminates the water supply in a small town in Iowa, the residents are suddenly turned into bloodthirsty psychopaths. The town sheriff does all he can to make sense of the outbreak, as his wife and two other unaffected people fight for their survival.
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