Author: Grand River Implementation Committee
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Category : Water resources development
Languages : en
Pages : 82

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Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309105242
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 222

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Recent studies of past climate and streamflow conditions have broadened understanding of long-term water availability in the Colorado River, revealing many periods when streamflow was lower than at any time in the past 100 years of recorded flows. That information, along with two important trends-a rapid increase in urban populations in the West and significant climate warming in the region-will require that water managers prepare for possible reductions in water supplies that cannot be fully averted through traditional means. Colorado River Basin Water Management assesses existing scientific information, including temperature and streamflow records, tree-ring based reconstructions, and climate model projections, and how it relates to Colorado River water supplies and demands, water management, and drought preparedness. The book concludes that successful adjustments to new conditions will entail strong and sustained cooperation among the seven Colorado River basin states and recommends conducting a comprehensive basinwide study of urban water practices that can be used to help improve planning for future droughts and water shortages.

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Languages : en
Pages : 252

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Author: United States. Great Lakes Basin Commission
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Category : Great Lakes (North America)
Languages : en
Pages : 452

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Author: United States. Environmental Protection Agency
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Category : Environmental engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 600

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Author: United States. Great Lakes Basin Commission
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Category : Great Lakes (North America)
Languages : en
Pages : 266

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Author: Cecilia Tortajada
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317526872
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 283

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The book includes seventeen excellent researched and documented papers that reflect the diversity of thought, ideas and experiences related to IWRM. They draw from an extensive, inclusive and geographically representative range of theoretical propositions and practical examples. These include the implementation status of the IWRM concept at local, basin, regional and national levels; its appropriateness for the twenty-first century; main implementation gaps from the institutional, legal, policy, governance, management and technical viewpoints; the likelihood that IWRM’s entrenchment in laws, regulations and policies has led to smoother implementation and the reasons why that has been the case; reflexions on whether the attention given to IWRM is pushing other alternatives to the policy periphery; and the new conceptual constructions that can be put forward for discussion in the international arena. For the development and water communities it is imperative to debate and reach towards more illustrative conclusions regarding whether the promotion of the IWRM concept and its actual implementation status have been beneficial for development and how the notion could evolve to achieve this end. In-depth objective and constructive discussions, arguments, proposals and ideas are put forward for analysis by all interested parties. The book has the objective of fostering scholarly exchange, encouraging intellectual debate and promoting the advancement of knowledge and understanding of IWRM as a concept, as a goal per se and as a strategy towards development goals. This book was published as a special issue of the International Journal of Water Resources Development.

Author: United States. Great Lakes Basin Commission
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Category : Great Lakes Region (North America)
Languages : en
Pages : 364

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Author: United States. Great Lakes Basin Commission
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Category : Great Lakes (North America)
Languages : en
Pages : 794

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Author: United States. Great Lakes Basin Commission
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Category : Great Lakes Region (North America)
Languages : en
Pages : 284

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