In a world where water has become a precious resource, Vera and her brother befriend a boy who seems to have unlimited access to water and who suspiciously disappears, prompting a dangerous search challenged by pirates, a paramilitary group, and corporations.

With its wide sky and warm earth, Princess Gie Gie's kingdom is a beautiful land. But clean drinking water is scarce in her small African village. And try as she might, Gie Gie cannot bring the water closer; she cannot make it run clearer. Every morning, she rises before the sun to make the long journey to the well. Instead of a crown, she wears a heavy pot on her head to collect the water. After the voyage home, after boiling the water to drink and...

Minni lives in the poorest part of Mumbai, where access to water is limited, and she often has to wait hours to use the communal tap. Lately, though, even that access is threatened by water shortages and thieves who are stealing this precious commodity -- an act that Minni accidentally witnesses one night. Meanwhile, in the high-rise building where she has begun working as a maid, she discovers that water streams out of every faucet and there's even...

When the Sudanese civil war reaches his village in 1985, eleven-year-old Salva becomes separated from his family and must walk with other Dinka tribe members through southern Sudan, Ethiopia, and Kenya in search of safe haven. Based on the life of Salva Dut, who, after emigrating to America in 1996, began a project to dig water wells in Sudan.

A girl and her community celebrate the arrival of the water man when he comes on his weekly visit to distribute water to a Cuban village.

Follows the experiences of a young girl who dreams of bringing clean drinking water to her African village as she rises early every morning and makes long journeys to the well with a heavy pot that she carries on her head.

Belle Song and her friends are on a seventh-grade camping trip to Mount Olympus, and when Belle injures her leg it turns out that she has discovered a rare and valuable mineral used to make space travel more efficient but which almost kills her--the BAMCorp claims that the mineral belongs to them, but mining it could poison Mars's precious water supply and soon tensions rise between the officials of Mars and protesting farmers.

"Conoce a Maxine Einstein. Valiente. Creativa. Brillante. Los únicos superpoderes que necesita una chica."--Back cover. Max y sus amigos de CMI intentan usar su inteligencia para encontrar soluciones a una crisis de agua, mientras que una corporación codiciosa con el objetivo de capturar a Max parece conocer todos sus movimientos. Max and her CMI friends attempt to use their smarts to find solutions to a water crisis, while a greedy corporation...