Author: United States. Office of Water Resources ResearchPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Water conservation
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Annual Report
Author: United States. Office of Water Resources ResearchPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Water conservation
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Annual Report
Author: United States. National Park Service. Water Resources DivisionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : National parks and reserves
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Annual Report
Author: United States. Office of Water Research and TechnologyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hydrology
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Annual Report - Office of Water Resources Research
Author: United States. Office of Water Resources ResearchPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Water conservation
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
Annual Report
Author: New England River Basins CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Water resources development
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Annual Report
Author: United States. Great Lakes Basin CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Water use
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
Florida's Water
Author: Tom SwihartPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113652164X
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Florida's Water poses fundamental questions about water sustainability in the United States' fourth largest state. Florida has long-standing water quality problems. Global climate change threatens to intensify Florida's floods and droughts, make hurricanes more common or more damaging, and eventually submerge much of low-lying Florida, including the Everglades. How can Florida meet these extraordinary challenges? And what lessons does the Florida experience hold for other states? This book fully integrates the many diverse responsibilities of water management into a readable and compelling combination of interesting narratives and deep analysis. Author Tom Swihart's unique, intimate knowledge of Florida's successes and failures in water management brings out both the novelty of Florida's water situation and the features that it has in common with other states.
Annual Report
Author: Illinois State Water SurveyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Water quality
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Annual Report - Great Lakes Basin Commission
Author: United States. Great Lakes Basin CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Lakes (North America)
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Drying Up
Author: John M. DunnPublisher: University Press of Florida
ISBN: 081306385X
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Florida Historical Society Stetson Kennedy Award Florida Book Awards, Bronze Medal for Florida Nonfiction America’s wettest state is running out of water. Florida—with its swamps, lakes, extensive coastlines, and legions of life-giving springs—faces a drinking water crisis. Drying Up is a wake-up call and a hard look at what the future holds for those who call Florida home. Journalist and educator John Dunn untangles the many causes of the state’s freshwater problems. Drainage projects, construction, and urbanization, especially in the fragile wetlands of South Florida, have changed and shrunk natural water systems. Pollution, failing infrastructure, increasing outbreaks of toxic algae blooms, and pharmaceutical contamination are worsening water quality. Climate change, sea level rise, and groundwater pumping are spoiling freshwater resources with saltwater intrusion. Because of shortages, fights have broken out over rights to the Apalachicola River, Lake Okeechobee, the Everglades, and other important watersheds. Many scientists think Florida has already passed the tipping point, Dunn warns. Drawing on more than one hundred interviews and years of research, he affirms that soon there will not be enough water to meet demand if “business as usual” prevails. He investigates previous and current restoration efforts as well as proposed future solutions, including the “soft path for water” approach that uses green infrastructure to mimic natural hydrology. As millions of new residents are expected to arrive in Florida in the coming decades, this book is a timely introduction to a problem that will escalate dramatically—and not just in Florida. Dunn cautions that freshwater scarcity is a worldwide trend that can only be tackled effectively with cooperation and single-minded focus by all stakeholders involved—local and federal government, private enterprise, and citizens. He challenges readers to rethink their relationship with water and adopt a new philosophy that compels them to protect the planet’s most precious resource.