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Category : Stream conservation
Languages : en
Pages : 274
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Water Banks in the West
Author: Analysis of Water Banks in the Western States
Author: Peggy CliffordPublisher:
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Category : Water banking
Languages : en
Pages : 156
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Water Banks
Author: Lawrence MacDonnellPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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This article examines the use of water banking mechanisms to facilitate the transfer of water to new uses. It provides a look at existing banks in Idaho and California. It discusses proposals for additional banks. Finally it offers a suggested framework for establishing new banks.
Using Water Banks to Promote More Flexible Water Use
Author: The West Without Water
Author: B. Lynn IngramPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520268555
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
"Documents the tumultuous climate of the American West over twenty thousand years, with tales of past droughts and deluges and predictions about the impacts of future climate change on water resources."--Back cover.
Where the Water Goes
Author: David OwenPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0698189906
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
“Wonderfully written…Mr. Owen writes about water, but in these polarized times the lessons he shares spill into other arenas. The world of water rights and wrongs along the Colorado River offers hope for other problems.” —Wall Street Journal An eye-opening account of where our water comes from and where it all goes. The Colorado River is an essential resource for a surprisingly large part of the United States, and every gallon that flows down it is owned or claimed by someone. David Owen traces all that water from the Colorado’s headwaters to its parched terminus, once a verdant wetland but now a million-acre desert. He takes readers on an adventure downriver, along a labyrinth of waterways, reservoirs, power plants, farms, fracking sites, ghost towns, and RV parks, to the spot near the U.S.–Mexico border where the river runs dry. Water problems in the western United States can seem tantalizingly easy to solve: just turn off the fountains at the Bellagio, stop selling hay to China, ban golf, cut down the almond trees, and kill all the lawyers. But a closer look reveals a vast man-made ecosystem that is far more complex and more interesting than the headlines let on. The story Owen tells in Where the Water Goes is crucial to our future: how a patchwork of engineering marvels, byzantine legal agreements, aging infrastructure, and neighborly cooperation enables life to flourish in the desert—and the disastrous consequences we face when any part of this tenuous system fails.
Statement of Harvey O. Banks, Chairman, Interstate Conference on Water Problems, President, Association of Western State Engineers, Before Senate Select Committee on National Water Resources, 86th Congress, 2d Session, Washington, D.C., May 24, 1960
Author: Harvey O. BanksPublisher:
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Category : Water resources development
Languages : en
Pages : 38
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State Drought Water Bank
Author: Gerald L. BolesPublisher:
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Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 372
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Water 2025
Author: Barry LeonardPublisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1437904122
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 27
Book Description
Water is the lifeblood of the Amer. West and the foundation of its economy. It is the fastest growing region of the country and water is its scarcest resource. Water 2025 focuses on: explosive population growth in western urban areas, the emerging need for water for environmental and recreational uses, and the national importance of the domestic production of food and fiber from western farms and ranches. They are driving conflicts between these competing uses of water. State and local governments should have a leading role in meeting these challenges, and the Dept. of the Interior should focus its attention and existing resources on areas where scarce federal dollars can provide the greatest benefits to the West and the rest of the Nation. Illus.
Fragile by Design
Author: Charles W. CalomirisPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691168350
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description
Why stable banking systems are so rare Why are banking systems unstable in so many countries—but not in others? The United States has had twelve systemic banking crises since 1840, while Canada has had none. The banking systems of Mexico and Brazil have not only been crisis prone but have provided miniscule amounts of credit to business enterprises and households. Analyzing the political and banking history of the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Brazil through several centuries, Fragile by Design demonstrates that chronic banking crises and scarce credit are not accidents. Calomiris and Haber combine political history and economics to examine how coalitions of politicians, bankers, and other interest groups form, why they endure, and how they generate policies that determine who gets to be a banker, who has access to credit, and who pays for bank bailouts and rescues. Fragile by Design is a revealing exploration of the ways that politics inevitably intrudes into bank regulation.