Water Research

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The pressure on supplies of usable fresh water in many parts of the country has led to an increasing amount of research on the problems of planning and managing our water resources. The Sixth Western Resources Conference at which the papers in this volume were initially presented was organized by Resources for the Future, Inc., the University of Colorado, Colorado State University, and the Colorado School of Mines to give leading experts in the field the opportunity to report on and discuss their current research.
In the Introduction, Dr. Kneese analyzes the major developments in water research in the past decade. The most recent of these developments, which will have far-reaching effects, is the Water Resources Act of 1964. This Act for the first time gives substantial financial assistance to university research in water resources. It is aimed at establishing water resource institutes at universities in each of the fifty states and Puerto Rico.
This book, therefore, is... Tovább

Fülszöveg

The pressure on supplies of usable fresh water in many parts of the country has led to an increasing amount of research on the problems of planning and managing our water resources. The Sixth Western Resources Conference at which the papers in this volume were initially presented was organized by Resources for the Future, Inc., the University of Colorado, Colorado State University, and the Colorado School of Mines to give leading experts in the field the opportunity to report on and discuss their current research.
In the Introduction, Dr. Kneese analyzes the major developments in water research in the past decade. The most recent of these developments, which will have far-reaching effects, is the Water Resources Act of 1964. This Act for the first time gives substantial financial assistance to university research in water resources. It is aimed at establishing water resource institutes at universities in each of the fifty states and Puerto Rico.
This book, therefore, is particulady timely, coming as it does at the threshold of a new era in water research. It provides both a survey of past efforts and recommendations for future work. The twenty-six contributions are divided into seven parts: Issues in Theoretical Analysis, Case Studies of Water Management, Research on Evaluation Problems, Studies of Water Reallocation, Political and Administrative Studies, Research on Hydrology and Engineering, and Major Research Programs and Needs. Vissza