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To understand and model the movement and use of water in a human dominated landscape, the physical laws governing water behavior must be integrated with an understanding of human infrastructure and behavior. Physical laws that predict the rate at...
2006-07-18
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Water resources decisions in the 21st Century will have strong economic and environmental components and can therefore benefit from scenario analyses that make use of integrated river basin models. SAHRA (the National Science Foundation Science...
2006-07-19
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Water management organizations often distribute water among members according to a political decision function (e.g., voting, historical delivery, etc.) -- not economic functions of willingness to pay or shadow values. As a result, scarce water...
2006-06-19
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The City of Santa Fe maintains two reservoirs in the municipal watershed that supply 40 per cent of the City’s water. By the end of the 20th century, the forest in that watershed had become so overgrown that it presented an extreme fire risk,...
2006-07-20
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The cost and ability of California’s water supply system to adapt to major changes in climate are assessed using the CALVIN economic-engineering model. A dry climate warming GCM scenario is used to create statewide hydrologic changes, which are...
2006-07-19
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Hydropower is the largest energy user of water in the U.S., although most of that water use is not consumptive. In 1995, USGS estimated that hydropower annual water uses was 3,160,000 million gallons per day, or about 16 times more than what is...
2006-07-20
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Communities in the United States and across the world face water supply challenges due to increasing demand, drought, depletion and contamination of groundwater, and dependence on single sources of supply. These communities are increasingly...
2006-07-20
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Santa Fe’s WaterMAPS model helps municipal policy-level decision-makers, water utility and resource managers, and operations staff make decisions on how to best manage and conserve water supplies. The City of Santa Fe, with CDM, has developed...
2006-07-19
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A healthy water system that can perform its essential functions requires a good record of system component location and connectivity, an in-depth understanding of system hydraulics, and a coordinated operation and maintenance program. In Saipan,...
2006-07-19
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Recurring droughts in all or part of Pennsylvania over the past ten years have resulted in increased conflicts and questions about water availability. In response to this demand, Penn State Cooperative Extension created a variety of educational...
2006-07-19
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The availability of water in the Texas Panhandle is a major concern. The top twenty-six counties of West Texas have a semi-arid climate, with little surface water available for consumption. The majority of the water used in the region for...
2006-07-19
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A quadratic water response function for irrigated wheat is estimated using field data collected from commercial wheat producers in the Texas Panhandle. The response function is used to estimate irrigation requirements and net returns for three...
2006-07-19
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Regional water planning in Texas began with the passage of Senate Bill 1 in 1997. The state was divided into 16 regions for the purposes of developing regional water plans that would eventually be integrated into a single state wide water plan. El...
2006-07-19
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Groundwater is a scarce resource with competing demands – drinking, irrigation, industrial and recreational uses. Irrigation is by far the largest demands of groundwater among the competing uses. The groundwater supplies are declining at an...
2006-07-19
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The Ogallala aquifer in the heavily irrigated, northern region of Texas continues to decline and has no appreciable rate of recharge. Under the water planning efforts in Texas, the regional water planning group identified a goal of limiting water...
2006-07-19
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The history of water rights in the United States is rich with conflicts over critical water sources. Surface water and groundwater rights are seen as primarily State responsibilities, except for federal lands and selected interstate and...
2006-07-19
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Airborne pollutants, especially sulfate and nitrate, have been known to cause acid rain problems. These pollutants may be directly emitted from various emission sources or formed through chemical or physical processes in the atmosphere. The...
2006-07-18
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Water resources in the arid southwest are frequently the subject of arbitration between competing interests of private and public entities. Although the legal remedies allow for a path forward, the technical nature of the problem often determines...
2006-07-19
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Capture zones of water-supply wells are a widely used analysis tool for protection of groundwater resources. Transient analyses of capture zones provide a more complete assessment than the commonly applied steady-state analyses. Previously, we...
2006-07-19
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The USDA-Funded Sustainable Agricultural Water Conservation research program is a joint Texas State University System (TSUS) project. A Transboundary Diagnostic Analysis (TDA) outline has been developed for the purpose of guiding the research...
2006-07-19
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The University of Florida has conducted a significant research program over the last four years investigating various aspects of Aquifer, Storage and Recovery (ASR). One pillar of this research effort was the compilation of ASR field data from...
2006-07-18
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Aquifer Storage and Recovery (ASR) is a process for recharging aquifers from available surface water resources and recovering the water later when needed. We consider financial viability of well injection of water from the Rio Grande during wet...
2006-07-18
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Artificial recharge is a process to replenish an aquifer through engineered systems. Systems commonly used for artificial recharge include spreading basins, infiltration galleries and vadose zone wells. Artificial recharge may also be accomplished...
2006-07-18
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This paper describes the NASA’s Water Management Applications Program and opportunities for the water resources community to participate. NASA’s Applied Sciences Program (ASP) has the primary responsibility to accelerate the use of NASA data and...
2006-07-18
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Water is a keystone natural resources in Texas required to sustain human life, a viable economy and a livable environment. Over the past 50 years, population growth and shifts, economic development, technologic innovation and changing political...
2006-07-18
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