Author: Wendy GordonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Groundwater
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
A Citizen's Handbook on Groundwater Protection
Author: Wendy GordonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Groundwater
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Citizen's Guide to Ground-water Protection
Author: A Citizen Handbook on GroundWater Protection
Author: Wendy GordonGroundwater Citizenship
Author: Brock TernesPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1666903477
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 245
Book Description
The tremendous loss of groundwater has been a longstanding concern in Kansas, where areas of the High Plains aquifer have plummeted. Groundwater Citizenship: Well Owners, Environmentalism, and the Depletion of the High Plains Aquifer investigates water conservation efforts, environmental priorities, and water supply awareness among private water well owners, a key social group whose water usage is pivotal to safeguarding aquifers. This book discusses how reliance on private and public water supplies influences watering practices by asking if owning a well changes the propensity to conserve water. To explore how water supplies shape environmental actions and beliefs, sociologist Brock Ternes constructed a one-of-a-kind dataset by surveying over 850 well owners and non-well owners throughout Kansas. His analyses reveal that well ownership influences several dimensions of water consumption, and he identifies how Kansans’ notions of environmentalism are recalibrated by their systems of water provision. This book frames well owners as unique conservationists whose water use is shaped by larger structures—aquifers, water laws, and food systems. Groundwater Citizenship takes a sociological look at water systems to facilitate adaptive approaches to sustainable resource management.
Handbook of Groundwater Protection and Cleanup Policies for RCRA Corrective Action
Author: Handbook
Author: Citizen's Guide to Colorado Water Law
Author: Gregory HobbsPublisher:
ISBN: 9780985707187
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
This useful desk reference, authored by Justice Gregory Hobbs Jr., explores the basics of Colorado water law, how it developed, and how it is applied today. Readers can learn more about surface water and groundwater allocation and regulation, understand concepts such as interstate compacts, or read about how a "call" for water works.
Planning for Groundwater Protection
Author: G. William PagePublisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 0323152198
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Planning for Groundwater Protection focuses on toxic substances contamination problems of groundwater in the United States and other industrially developed countries. This book discusses the potential health risks of toxic substances caused by contamination of groundwater. Organized into 14 chapters, this book starts with an overview of the method in which pollutants enter the groundwater system and the natural defense mechanisms operative in the subsurface. This text then proceeds with a discussion of the groundwater monitoring activities that are necessary for groundwater planning and protection, which includes protecting groundwater from pollution and protecting groundwater supplies from overdraft. Other chapters consider the laws and institutions that are established to protect groundwater from contamination, including the Safe Drinking Water Act, the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), and the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) laws implemented by the Environmental Protection Agency. This book is a valuable resource for sanitarians, environmentalists, chemical engineers, and urban planners.
Understanding Groundwater
Author: William Jesse SchwalbaumPublisher: Nova Publishers
ISBN: 9781560724049
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
As a consulting hydrogeologist to municipalities and public water suppliers, Jesse Schwalbaum has been teaching the basic principles of groundwater science to the public for almost 20 years. This book has grown out of countless informal hydrology lectures he has given at public meetings, court rooms and in written reports.
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