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Category : Watershed management
Languages : en
Pages : 64
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Top 10 Watershed Lessons Learned
Author: Global Lessons for Watershed Management in the United States
Author: J. GoldsteinPublisher: IWA Publishing
ISBN: 1843397129
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Water resource management in the United States is evolving in the face of continuing challenges to protect water quality, provide adequate quantities of water for competing uses, and protect habitat and other natural resources. In many jurisdictions and agencies this evolution is increasingly leading toward adoption of watershed management. This approach is characterized by planning and decision making on a watershed scale, integration of a variety of competing water resource priorities and goals, cooperation of multiple stakeholders and governmental agencies, and increased levels of public participation. This report identifies the most promising watershed planning and management approaches from around the world; evaluates how they operate, their benefits and limitations; and assesses the degree to which these approaches could be successfully adapted to the U.S. context. Drawing on this international experience, the report is intended to inform policy makers and practitioners and to promote the implementation of integrated watershed management approaches that are most likely to succeed. This report: Provides a decision-making framework of watershed management efforts at all scales in the United States. Evaluates past U.S. watershed management experience and identifies key characteristics for success as well as major challenges and opportunities for improving the watershed approach. Summarizes and evaluates international case studies where innovative watershed management techniques have been used. Identifies ten key lessons for sustainable water management, including the role of water/wastewater utilities based on the experience of the international case study watersheds.
People, Places, and Partnerships
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Category : Environmental protection
Languages : en
Pages : 56
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Nutrient criteria technical guidance manual lakes and reservoirs
Author: Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1428902031
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Watershed Academy, Inventory of Watershed Training Courses
Author: Watershed Health Monitoring
Author: Chris JonesPublisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 142001014X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 247
Book Description
Watershed Health Monitoring: Emerging Technologies is a concise reference that defines the concept of watershed health and explains that monitoring the health of watersheds is a critical precursor to adaptive resource management on a watershed basis. The focus of the text is a clear description of an innovative "Closed Loop" model that specifies fo
Handbook of Water Sensitive Planning and Design
Author: Robert L. FrancePublisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1420032429
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 726
Book Description
Design options and planning procedures must be critically examined to ensure that landscapes are created with sensitivity to water quality and management issues as well as overall ecological integrity. Handbook of Water Sensitive Planning and Design presents the history of water as a design and planning element in landscape architecture and describes new interpretations of water management. This text pushes the frontiers of standard water management in new directions, challenging readers into abandoning the comfortable safety of conducting business-as-usual within narrow disciplinary confines, and instead directing views outward to the exciting and incompletely mapped regions of true interdisciplinary water sensitive planning and design. With contributions from renowned practitioners, Part I provides seventeen chapters addressing the subject of site-specific water sensitive design and Part II presents another seventeen chapters focusing on issues relating to the water sensitive planning of riparian buffers and watersheds. In addition, Professor France has provided a "Response" to accompany each chapter, which succinctly underscores the salient features in more detail and emphasizes cross-linking to other chapters in the book. The "Overview" provides a brief road-map to navigate through the section. Finally, the discussion summaries at the end of each section elaborate on past problems, current challenges, and future directions. Handbook of Water Sensitive Planning and Design puts forward the very best of modern water sensitive planning and design and should be required reading for everyone involved in this dynamic and crucial field.
Guidance to Utilities on Building Alliances with Watershed Stakeholders
Author: Robert S. RaucherPublisher: American Water Works Association
ISBN: 1583210903
Category : Communication in water resources development
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Aimed at helping drinking water utilities develop key relationships with the diverse users of the same environmental resources that utilities need to provide reliable supplies of high quality drinking water to customers, this AAWA-sponsored report contains tools and resources developed from ten utility case studies, surveys of 30 utilities, evaluation of the outcomes of two workshops, and literature reviews. It also offers an executive summary and 19 exhibits including such stakeholder alliance tools as guides, handbooks, and programs; institutional and regulatory programs and contacts; technical assistance; and financial assistance resources. Lacks an index. An erratum refers to report #90826 and credits the consulting firm. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
EPA 200-B.
Author: Protecting Sources of Drinking Water
Author: Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 142890591X
Category : Watershed management
Languages : en
Pages : 41
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