Tuesday, September 14, 2010

My List of Sources (By Nelson Salgado)

Source #1
"Saving The Earth: A Citizen's Guide To Environmental Action"
Written by Will Steger and Jon Bowermaster
New York, 1990
This book emphasizes the actions that can be develop for the population in general (the common citizen) to solve, or at least help to heal some of the environmental problems including the water pollution. It offers solutions that we all can apply in our houses or that we can take the initiative to do it.


Source # 2
"Water Quality in A Stressed Environment: Readings in Environmental Hydrology"
Edited by Wayne A. Pettyjhon
The Ohio State University
Editorial Burgess Publishing Company
Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1972
The most important contribution for our research is that this book explain some facts about the pollutions in aquifers: the relation between soil and water pollution and it explain how industrial processes pollute the ground water from the point of view of the hydrology.

Source # 3
"Oil Spill Debris: Where To Put The Waste. Interagency Energy/Environment R&D Program Report"
United States Environmental Protection Agency
January, 1980.
This book is from the collection of Government Documents. Although bigger oil spills have taken place since 1980, there are interesting the solutions proposed about what to with the rests produced for this type of environmental disasters with the main purpose that avoid they keep polluting the water.

Source # 4
"Environmental Pollutants: Detection and Measurement"
Edited by Taft Y. Toribara, James R. Coleman, Barton E. Danhneke, and Isaac Feldman
University of Rochester, Rochester, NY
Plenum Press Editorial, New York, 1978
The most interesting part are the discussions among experts in different fields like laws, chemistry, environmental sciences, etc., trying to find solutions for different types of pollutions. Sometimes, the scientific terminology make the lecture difficult but it is even possible catch the main ideas.

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