Instream Flow Protection: Seeking A Balance In Western Water UseIsland Press, 2013 M02 22 - 427 páginas Instream Flow Protection is a comprehensive overview of Western water use and the issues that surround it. The authors explain instream flow and its historical, political, and legal context; describe current instream flow laws and policies; and present methods of protecting instream flow. They provide numerous examples to illustrate their discussions, with case studies of major river systems including the Bitterroot, Clark's Fork, Colorado, Columbia, Mimbres, Mono Lake, Platte, Snake, and Wind. Policymakers, land and water managers at local, state, and federal levels, attorneys, students and researchers of water issues, and anyone concerned with instream flow protection will find the book enormously valuable. |
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... West's rivers and streams have been severely diminished, even extin- guished, as water has been diverted for ... West, and water has been used for industrial purposes for at least one and a half centuries. The host of domestic, public ...
... West. Irrigation enabled the production of food and fiber in quantities sufficient to sustain not only west- erners, but also residents of other states and countries. The use of water has, in fact, been the foundation on which the West's ...
... West. But conditions, needs, and values change. It is hardly possible these days to read or talk about water policy in the West without coming across the topic of change. Enormous population growth, concentration of the West's residents ...
... West. On the Great Plains most people lived as nomadic or seminomadic hunters and gatherers, covering great dis- tances ... West's earliest “public works” project, because the massive endeavor required to build the canals would only have ...
... West . The Spaniards also built gristmills along rivers and streams , using streamflows to turn the wheels and produce flour from grain . The use of water to turn Spanish grist- mills probably constituted the West's first use of rivers ...
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Instream Uses of Water | 45 |
How Much Water Should Be Left in Streams? | 95 |
Instream Flow Protection Issues in the States | 111 |
Methods the States Use to Protect Instream Flows | 137 |
Effect of Instream Flow Protection on Other Water Uses | 165 |
Federal Authorities and Approaches for Protecting Instream Flows | 177 |
Federal Environmental Protection Legislation and Programs Affecting Instream Flows | 255 |
Reaching a Balance in Water Allocation | 297 |
Notes | 307 |
References | 379 |
Index | 403 |
About the Authors | 419 |
Island Press Board of Directors 1997 | 421 |
Federal Water Development Programs Affecting Instream Flows | 225 |
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Instream Flow Protection: Seeking A Balance In Western Water Use David M. Gillilan,Thomas C. Brown Sin vista previa disponible - 1997 |