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Water is a vital resource, especially here in the desert. Quench your thirst for knowledge with these titles about water. *This list was inspired by the Honoring those impacted by Trichloroethylene (TCE) events and exhibits going on throughout. A few of the books on this list are from that display. For more information, see links below.

Pima County Public Library

24 items

  • Disabled Ecologies

    Lessons From a Wounded Desert

    Taylor, Sunaura
    From Bibliocommons: "Deep below the ground in Tucson, Arizona, lies an aquifer forever altered by the detritus of Tucson's postwar boom. Once the ancient water body became polluted, so did the drinking water of the largely Mexican American community…
    Book, 2024Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2024] — 363.7394 T2185d 2024
  • The Three Ages of Water

    Prehistoric Past, Imperiled Present, and a Hope for the Future

    Gleick, Peter H.
    From Bibliocommons: "In The Three Ages of Water, expert on water resources and climate change Peter Gleick guides us through the long, fraught history of our most valuable resource. Spread over a ten-thousand-year human history, it begins with the…
    Book, 2023New York : PublicAffairs, 2023. — 333.91 G481t 2023
  • From Bibliocommons: "In this richly narrated and authoritative work--combining environmental and societal history--Giulio Boccaletti begins with the earliest civilizations of sedentary farmers on the banks of the Nile, the Tigris, and the Euphrates.…
    Book, 2021New York : Pantheon Books, [2021] — 909 B6309w 2021
  • Where the Water Goes

    Life and Death Along the Colorado River

    Owen, David, 1955-
    From Bibliocommons: "The Colorado River is an essential resource for a surprisingly large part of the United States, and every gallon that flows down it is owned or claimed by someone. David Owen traces all that water from the Colorado’s headwaters…
    Book, 2017New York : Riverhead Books, 2017. — 917.913 Ow22w 2017
  • From Bibliocommons: "A narrative nonfiction account of the worldwide water crisis, explaining what's happening to the world's water supply, from industrial pollution to harmful algal blooms, and what kids can do about it"--
    Book, 2022Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Young Readers, 2022. — 363.7394 C274w 2022 CHILD
  • From Bibliocommons: "Through photography and essays, this book is a celebration of one of America's most valuable and iconic rivers and a warning demonstrating the river is a bellwether of overuse and climate change."
    Book, 2024New York, NY : Rizzoli International Publications, Inc., 2024. — 333.9162 M1225c 2024
  • What the Eyes Don't See

    a Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in An American City

    Hanna-Attisha, Mona
    From Bibliocommons: "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…
    Book, 2018New York : One World, 2018. — 615.92568 H1952w 2018
  • This movie is inspired by the true story of a lawyer who fought the company DuPont when they contaminated a town's water supply with toxic forever chemicals.
    DVD, 2020Universal City, CA : Universal Pictures Home Entertainment, [2020] — DVD Dark
  • Poisoning the Well

    How Forever Chemicals Contaminated America

    Udasin, Sharon
    From Bibliocommons: "This is the shocking true-life story of how PFAS -- a set of toxic chemicals most people have never heard of -- poisoned the entire country. Based on original, shoe-leather reporting in four highly contaminated towns and damning…
    Book, 2025Washington, D. C. : Island Press, [2025] — 363.73849 Ud1p 2025
  • Border Water

    the Politics of U.S.-Mexico Transboundary Water Management, 1945-2015

    Mumme, Stephen P.
    From Bibliocommons: "This is the first scholarly study to detail the history and international politics of managing water flowing across the U.S.-Mexico border. Written from both a historical and political science perspective, the study's primary…
    Book, 2023[Tucson] : The University of Arizona Press, 2023. — 333.91009 M9199b 2023
  • To Be a Water Protector

    the Rise of the Wiindigoo Slayers

    LaDuke, Winona
    According to the National Women's History Museum, "Winona LaDuke was born in Los Angeles, California on August 18, 1959 to parents Vincent and Betty (Bernstein) LaDuke. Her father, also known as Sun Bear, was Anishinaabe (or Ojibwe) from the White…
    Book, 2020Halifax ; Winnipeg : Fernwood Publishing ; Ponsford : Spotted Horse Press, [2020] — 363.7 L128t 2020
  • Life After Dead Pool

    Lake Powell's Last Days and the Rebirth of the Colorado River

    Podmore, Zak
    Book, 2024Salt Lake City, [Utah] : Torrey House Press, [2024] — 333.9162 P7521L 2024
  • Superman's Not Coming

    Our National Water Crisis and What We the People Can Do About It

    Brockovich, Erin
    From Bibliocommons: "Water. The single most necessary element to sustain life. Brockovich warns that America's water crisis isn't looming on the horizon--it's already here. Superman Isn't Coming makes clear that the most precious resource on planet…
    Book, 2020New York : Pantheon Books, [2020] — 363.7394 B783s 2020
  • The Poisoned City

    Flint's Water and the American Urban Tragedy

    Clark, Anna
    From Bibliocommons: "Recounts the gripping story of Flint's poisoned water through the people who caused it, suffered from it, and exposed it. It is a chronicle of one town, but could also be about any American city, all made precarious by the…
    Book, 2018New York : Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company, 2018. — 363.61097 C5471p 2018
  • They Poisoned the World

    Life and Death in the Age of Forever Chemicals

    Blake, Mariah
    Book, 2025New York : Crown, [2025] — 615.90209 B5815t 2025
  • Streaming Video, 2019Dark Star Pictures, 2019. — Streaming Video
  • From Flint

    Voices From a Poisoned City

    Streaming Video, 2017[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2017. — Streaming Video