Author: United States. National Resources Committee. Water Resources Committee
Publisher:
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Category : Rivers
Languages : en
Pages : 882
Book Description
Drainage Basin Committees' Reports
Author: United States. National Resources Committee. Water Resources Committee
Publisher:
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Category : Rivers
Languages : en
Pages : 882
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Category : Rivers
Languages : en
Pages : 882
Book Description
Southern Waters
Author: Craig E. Colten
Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807156523
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 333
Book Description
Water has dominated images of the South throughout history, from Hernando de Soto's 1541 crossing of the Mississippi to tragic scenes of flooding throughout the Gulf South after Hurricane Katrina. But these images tell only half the story: as urban, industrial, and population growth create unprecedented demands on water in the South, the problems of pollution and water shortages grow ever more urgent. In Southern Waters: The Limits to Abundance, Craig E. Colten addresses how the South -- in an environment fraught with uncertainty -- can navigate the twin risks of too much water and not enough. From the arrival of the first European settlers, the South's inhabitants have pursued a course of maximum exploitation and control of the area's plentiful waters, investing widely in wetland drainage and massive flood-control projects. Disputes over southern waterways go back nearly as far: obstruction of fish migration by mill dams prompted new policies to protect aquatic life as early as the colonial era. Colten argues that such conflicts, which have heightened dramatically since the explosive urbanization of the mid-twentieth century, will only become more frequent and intense, making the shift toward sustainable use a national imperative. In tracing the evolving uses and abuses of southern waters, Colten offers crucial insights into the complex historical geography of water throughout the region. A masterful analysis of the ways in which past generations harnessed and consumed water, Southern Waters also stands as a guide to adapting our water usage to cope with the looming shortage of this once-abundant resource.
Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807156523
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 333
Book Description
Water has dominated images of the South throughout history, from Hernando de Soto's 1541 crossing of the Mississippi to tragic scenes of flooding throughout the Gulf South after Hurricane Katrina. But these images tell only half the story: as urban, industrial, and population growth create unprecedented demands on water in the South, the problems of pollution and water shortages grow ever more urgent. In Southern Waters: The Limits to Abundance, Craig E. Colten addresses how the South -- in an environment fraught with uncertainty -- can navigate the twin risks of too much water and not enough. From the arrival of the first European settlers, the South's inhabitants have pursued a course of maximum exploitation and control of the area's plentiful waters, investing widely in wetland drainage and massive flood-control projects. Disputes over southern waterways go back nearly as far: obstruction of fish migration by mill dams prompted new policies to protect aquatic life as early as the colonial era. Colten argues that such conflicts, which have heightened dramatically since the explosive urbanization of the mid-twentieth century, will only become more frequent and intense, making the shift toward sustainable use a national imperative. In tracing the evolving uses and abuses of southern waters, Colten offers crucial insights into the complex historical geography of water throughout the region. A masterful analysis of the ways in which past generations harnessed and consumed water, Southern Waters also stands as a guide to adapting our water usage to cope with the looming shortage of this once-abundant resource.
Catalogue of the Public Documents of the [the Fifty-third] Congress [to the 76th Congress] and of All Departments of the Government of the United States
Author: United States. Superintendent of Documents
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 3208
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 3208
Book Description
Monthly Catalog, United States Public Documents
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 988
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 988
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Catalogue of the Public Documents of the ... Congress and of All Departments of the Government of the United States for the Period from ... to ...
Author: United States. Superintendent of Documents
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 2308
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 2308
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Hearings, Reports and Prints of the Senate Committee on Public Works
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Works
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Category : Legislative hearings
Languages : en
Pages : 1420
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Legislative hearings
Languages : en
Pages : 1420
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Hearings, Reports and Prints of the Senate Committee on Banking and Currency
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking and Currency
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Category : Banking law
Languages : en
Pages : 640
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Category : Banking law
Languages : en
Pages : 640
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Index to the Subjects of the Documents and Reports and to the Committees, Senators, and Representatives Presenting Them
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 176
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Publisher:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 176
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Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1444
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1444
Book Description
Monthly Catalogue, United States Public Documents
Author:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 992
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 992
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