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Over the past several decades, there has been a heightened national concern regarding the impacts of invasive species on our natural resources. Aquatic invasive species are now considered by some experts to be the second most important threat to...
2005-07-12
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Uzbekistan Southern DataStream and Samarkand State Architectural and Civil Engineering Institute's training program is designed to support regional water management and environmental protection projects in the Central Asia region, including...
2006-07-20
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Rural areas throughout the western United States are undergoing rapid and far-reaching land use changes that impact water management, riparian ecosystems, and traditional cultures. Impacts to water resource use and management include: potential...
2006-07-20
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Historical evidence clearly shows a significant decline in both stream flow and ground water recharge in the Sacramento Mountains of southern New Mexico. Photos, oral history, early Census data, and written accounts all paint a much wetter picture...
2006-07-20
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This paper describes the historical development of methods of quantitative water resource analysis, and illustrates modern reliability-based approaches with some examples.
2006-07-19
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Ecological footprint analysis (EFA) has been defined succinctly (Rees, 1997) as estimating the total area of productive land and water required to produce on a continuous basis all the resources consumed and to assimilate all the wastes produced...
2006-06-19
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Water utility planning efforts are becoming increasingly difficult throughout the world. Located in a semi-arid region, Ciudad Juárez, Mexico is a fast growing municipality that faces both physical infrastructure and water supply constraints. This...
2006-07-19
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The primary objective of this study was to analyze and evaluate the impacts of selected water conservation policy alternatives on the Ogallala Aquifer underlying the Southern High Plains of Texas and Eastern New Mexico for the purposes of...
2006-07-19
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The magnitude of recharge through playa wetlands in the High Plains has often been debated, but rarely been quantified. The ephemeral nature of water in playas makes it difficult and expensive to observe filling and drying/draining cycles. Rugged,...
2006-07-19
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Water supply and water quality problems facing the City of El Paso and Ciudad Juarez are complex and interrelated. The twin cities share the water resources of the Hueco Bolson, a Tertiary and Quaternary basin fill aquifer that spans the...
2006-07-19
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Return flow to groundwater is the quantity of water applied at or near the land surface which infiltrates back (returns) to the groundwater system. Common uses that lead to return flow are irrigation of agricultural fields, golf courses or lawns,...
2006-07-19
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The EWRI of ASCE has developed numerous standards practice documents or model water codes for water resources alternatives. These include documents on regulated riparian model water, artificial recharge of ground water, atmospheric water...
2006-07-18
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The winter of 2005-2006 in central NM was one of the driest on record and communities throughout the state are facing severe summer water shortages. Regardless of the lack of NMED policy, the resort community described above has begun construction...
2006-07-18
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Recent decrease in rainfall in Israel has caused severe damage to both the farmers as well as to the national economy. During drought years there is a need to either reduce the water consumption or alternatively increase supply by alternative...
2006-07-18
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Large Water use reallocations of multipurpose Federal Projects, typically USCOE or BLM reservoirs, is an expanding challenge. One controversy centers on whether Congress intended policy-makers and Project managers to apply the guidelines of the...
2006-07-18
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The need for innovative water saving and water capturing strategies in Albuquerque single family homes (SFH) is evident by the city’s vulnerability to drought, climate change and population growth. The intrinsic value of modern innovations is that...
2006-06-18
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Water planners and managers are faced with the increasing needs to utilize nonpotable water for irrigating urban landscapes in water-shortage areas of the arid West. However, existing guidelines for assessing suitability of water for irrigation is...
2006-07-18
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The only way we can assure proper water use and management is to empower citizens and students to become more proactive; and the best way to do that is to develop educational tools that make water and sustainability relevant to everyday life. This...
2008-07-22
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The symbiotic relationship that exists between the undergraduate students in the water resources program at Heidelberg College and the National Center for Water Quality Research staff benefits both students and water quality efforts.
2008-07-01
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In 1999, the Korean Ministry of Environment adopted the Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) management system to resolve the problems of traditional water quality management policies represented by concentration regulations, land-use regulations, and...
2008-07-01
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In this session we will present four curriculum approaches to transboundary courses. Each of the speakers will share the methodologies used in their program and/or class (majors in geography, water engineering, international relations, and...
2008-07-01
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The Tunnel and Reservoir Plan (TARP) was adopted by the Metropolitan Sanitary District of Greater Chicago in 1972 to address combined sewer overflow (CSO) pollution and flooding problems in 970 km2 of the Chicago metropolitan area served by...
2009-07-01
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In this project the issue of flood hazard mapping has been addressed from the perspective of different mapping scale in a GIS environment. The flood hazard map is particularly handy for the planners and administrators for formulating remedial...
2007-07-25
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Funded through the NSF Biocomplexity in the Environment program, this project investigates this ecological economic dilemma by constructing a spatial decision support system called Virtual Watershed that combines environmental simulation models,...
2007-07-25
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