Author: Tommy R. KnowlesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Groundwater
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Evaluating the Ground-water Resources of the High Plains of Texas
Author: Tommy R. KnowlesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Groundwater
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper
Author: Water-resources Investigations Report
Author: Geological Survey Professional Paper
Author: Geological Survey (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
Water Resources Perspectives: Evaluation, Management and Policy
Author: W.W. WoodPublisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 0080543685
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 405
Book Description
Many countries in the world have made great efforts, to remedy the water shortage, by providing financial and technical backing, for water desalination, treatment of wastewater and improved management and conservation techniques. Water ministries, universities and research centres have supported scientific research, and applied the most recent technologies, in search of new and alternative water supplies. Laws have been promulgated, economic and public relation campaigns developed, to promote and encourage the practice of efficient water use and the conservation of this scarce commodity. This book covers water resources and management and provides a new vision of water resources management, water conservation and legislations, water law, and modern techniques of water resources investigation.
Groundwater Exploitation in the High Plains
Author: David E. KrommPublisher: University Press of Kansas
ISBN: 0700631623
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
The High Plains region was once called the Great American Desert and thought to be, in the words of explorer Stephen Long, “wholly unfit for cultivation.” Now we know that beneath the surface, unbeknownst to the explorers and early settlers, lies the Ogallala aquifer, an underground formation that stretches for 800 miles from the Texas panhandle to South Dakota. It holds more water than Lake Huron. Indeed, the Ogallala has been referred to as the sixth Great Lake. It is the water pumped for irrigation from the Ogallala that has enabled a naturally dry region to produce up to 40 percent of America’s beef and 20 to 25 percent of its food and fiber, an output worth about $20 billion. In the forty years since the invention of center pivot irrigation, the High Plains aquifer system has been depleted at an astonishing rate. In 1978 the volume of water pumped from the aquifer exceeded the annual flow of the Colorado River. In Texas, water levels are down 200 feet in some areas. In Kansas, 700 miles of rivers that once flowed year round no longer flow at all. In short, the High Plains may be becoming the desert it was once thought to be. Is it too late to solve the problem? Geographers David Kromm and Stephen White assembled nine of the most knowledgeable scholars and water professionals in the Great Plains to help answer that question. The result is a collection of essays that insightfully examine the dilemmas of groundwater use. From a variety of perspectives they address both the technical problems and the politics of water management to provide a badly needed analysis of the implications of large-scale irrigation. They have included three case studies: the Nebraska Sand Hills, Northwestern Kansas, and West Texas. Kromm and White provide an introduction and conclusion to the volume.
Regional Aquifer-System Analysis Program of the U.S. Geological Survey, Summary of Projects, 1978-84
Author: Ren Jen SunPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aquifers
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
COGEOMAP
Author: Juergen ReinhardtPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aquifers
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
U.S. Geological Survey Circular
Author: Regional Aquifer-System Analysis Program of the U.S. Geological Survey
Author: John B. WeeksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aquifers
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description