Record Details
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Title | Utility response to drought : business of water management practices and function in view of decreased consumption |
Creator | Martinez, Louis |
Subject | drought scenarios Bernalillo County Water Utility Authority water managment Droughts--Economic aspects--New Mexico--Albuquerque Metropolitan Area. Municipal water supply--New Mexico--Albuquerque Metropolitan Area--Econometric models. Water consumption--New Mexico--Albuquerque Metropolitan Area--Econometric models. Drought forecasting--New Mexico--Albuquerque Metropolitan Area. |
Description | A Professional Project Report submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Water Resources, Water Resources Program, University of New Mexico. This paper uses parametric methods to construct 5 year, 10 year, and greater than 15 year drought scenarios to calculate potential source water reduction for the Albuquerque Bernalillo County Water Utility Authority’s (Authority) service area. The drought scenarios are drawn from literature of the Southwestern region’s historical precipitation patterns, the tree-ring record (TRR), and Global Climate Models (GCM). The cumulative surface water losses attributed to prolonged drought... |
Date | 2010-09-17T18:05:42Z 2010-09-17T18:05:42Z 2010-09-17 |
Type | Learning Object Presentation Technical Report Other |
Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/1928/11222 |
Language | en_US |