Water Problems Facing The Lower Colorado River Area

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Subcommittee on Water and Power
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Water Problems Facing the Lower Colorado River Area written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Subcommittee on Water and Power and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309105242
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Colorado River Basin Water Management written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2007-06-30 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : David Owen
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0735216096
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Where the Water Goes written by David Owen and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-04-10 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Wonderfully written…Mr. Owen writes about water, but in these polarized times the lessons he shares spill into other arenas. The world of water rights and wrongs along the Colorado River offers hope for other problems.” —Wall Street Journal An eye-opening account of where our water comes from and where it all goes. 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 to its parched terminus, once a verdant wetland but now a million-acre desert. He takes readers on an adventure downriver, along a labyrinth of waterways, reservoirs, power plants, farms, fracking sites, ghost towns, and RV parks, to the spot near the U.S.–Mexico border where the river runs dry. Water problems in the western United States can seem tantalizingly easy to solve: just turn off the fountains at the Bellagio, stop selling hay to China, ban golf, cut down the almond trees, and kill all the lawyers. But a closer look reveals a vast man-made ecosystem that is far more complex and more interesting than the headlines let on. The story Owen tells in Where the Water Goes is crucial to our future: how a patchwork of engineering marvels, byzantine legal agreements, aging infrastructure, and neighborly cooperation enables life to flourish in the desert—and the disastrous consequences we face when any part of this tenuous system fails.

Author : Lower Colorado Region State-Federal Interagency Group
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Lower Colorado Region Comprehensive Framework Study of Water and Land Resources written by Lower Colorado Region State-Federal Interagency Group and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study covers the period from 1965 (base year) to the year 2020. In order to identify and stage early, intermediate, and late action programs, this study was divided into three time frames: 1966-1980, 1981-2000, and 2001-2020. This study deals with the water and related land resources of the Lower Colorado Region and embraces all significant problems and beneficial uses associated with these resources. Consideration was given to various aspects of problems related to supplies of water for municipal and industrial purposes, water quality control, flood control, irrigation, electric power production, mining and mineral processing, watershed management and treatment, land resources and use, outdoor recreation, and fish and wildlife. Environmental aspects such as natural beauty, cultural and historic values, rare species of flora and fauna, wildlife in general, and water and air quality goals are considered to be integral parts of the fabric of an optimum framework program.

Author : United States. Bureau of Reclamation
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Critical Water Problems Facing the Eleven Western States written by United States. Bureau of Reclamation and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jason I. Morrison
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Sustainable Use of Water in the Lower Colorado River Basin written by Jason I. Morrison and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Department of the Interior
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Westwide Study Report on Critical Water Problems Facing the Eleven Western States: State comments written by United States. Department of the Interior and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. General Accounting Office
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Colorado River Basin Water Problems written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Wesley R. Nelson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Boulder Canyon Project written by Wesley R. Nelson and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Lower Colorado Region Assessment Staff
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book 1975 Water Assessment written by Lower Colorado Region Assessment Staff and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: