Review of the Week : H2O: are we in deep water?  

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Tanne, Janice Hopkins

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: British Medical Journal (keterangan: ada di Proquest) vol. 335 no. 7627 (Nov. 2007), page 995.

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Perpustakaan FK Nomor Panggil: B16.K.2007.01 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada

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A filmy curtain of royal blue bearing the words "water" in 17 languages greets you at the entrance to the American Museum of Natural History's exhibit "Water: H2O=Life." You hesitate for a moment, wondering what this is, but you step through the film, because this isn't a wall but a mist of water. Like all the water in the exhibition it is recycled, a clue that the museum is trying to tell you how rare our supply of fresh water is, how it keeps us alive but sometimes gives us disease, and how careless we are in using it. The exhibition's poster shows Planet Earth floating on a life preserver. Museum president Ellen Futter said the exhibition was timely and important when the world is facing a water crisis—drought in the US southeast, wildfires in Greece and California, mudslides in Central America, and more than a billion people without access . . .

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