Cengage Advantage Books: Sustaining the Earth 10th Edition by Tyler Miller,Scott Spoolman

Exercise 7

What are the advantages and disadvantages of with-drawing groundwater? Describe ways to prevent or slow groundwater depletion. What are the disadvantages of using large dams and reservoirs? What are live ecological services that rivers provide? Describe the California Water Project and the controversy over this water transfer project. Summarize the Aral Sea disaster. Define desalination and distinguish between What are the limitations of desalination and how might we overcome them?