Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Endangered species
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Recovery Plan for the Sacramento/San Joaquin Delta Native Fishes
Author: Comparing Futures for the Sacramento, San Joaquin Delta
Author: Jay LundPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520945379
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
An ecosystem in freefall, a shrinking water supply for cities and agriculture, an antiquated network of failure-prone levees—this is the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, the major hub of California's water system. Written by a team of independent water experts, this analysis of the latest data evaluates proposed solutions to the Delta's myriad problems. Through in-depth economic and ecological analysis, the authors find that the current policy of channeling water exports through the Delta is not sustainable for any interest. Employing a peripheral canal-conveying water around the Delta instead of through it—as part of a larger habitat and water management plan appears to be the best strategy to maintain both a high-quality water supply and at the same time improve conditions for native fish and wildlife. This important assessment includes integrated analysis of long term ecosystem and water management options and demonstrates how issues such as climate change and sustainability will shape the future. Published in cooperation with the Public Policy Institute of California
California Water Plan Update
Author: California. Department of Water ResourcesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Water conservation
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
The California State Water Project
Author: California. Dept. of Water ResourcesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Water resources development
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Draft, Additional Water Acquisition for Meeting VAMP Flow Objectives 1999
Author: Uncertainty and Forecasting of Water Quality
Author: M.B. BeckPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3642820549
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
Since the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis began its study of water quality modeling and management in 1977, it has been interested in the relations between uncertainty and the problems of model calibration and prediction. The work has focused on the theme of modeling poorly defined environmental systems, a principal topic of the effort devoted to environmental quality control and management. Accounting for the effects of uncertainty was also of central concern to our two case studies of lake eutrophication management, one dealing with Lake Balaton in Hungary and the other with several Austrian lake systems. Thus, in November 1979 we held a meeting at Laxenburg to discuss recent method ological developments in addressing problems associated with uncertainty and forecasting of water quality. This book is based on the proceedings of that meeting. The last few years have seen an increase in awareness of the issue of uncertainty in water quality and ecological modeling. This book is relevant not only to contemporary issues but also to those of the future. A lack of field data will not always be the dominant problem for water quality modeling and management; more sophisticated measuring techniques and more comprehensive monitoring networks will come to be more widely applied. Rather, the important problems of the future are much more likely to emerge from the enhanced facility of data processing and to concern the meaningful interpretation, assimilation., and use of the information thus obtained.
From the Sierra to the Sea
Author: William S. AlevizonPublisher: Bookbaby
ISBN: 9781543948349
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The original report From the Sierra to the Sea: Ecological History of the San Francisco Bay-Delta Watershed was a product of a three-year effort to develop a landscape level overview of the natural ecological structure, function and organization of the watershed, and the way it had changed over the course of the 19th and 20th centuries. Technical review and contributions from government and water agencies helped produce a collaborative document that provided information on the historical ecological baseline in order to assist in what was envisioned at the time as the most ambitious restoration effort ever undertaken in the United States. We are proud of the fact that the original document is still used as an objective reference, and has provided a foundation and inspiration for similar but more intensively researched localized efforts by others in the Bay-Delta watershed. This 20th anniversary edition contains a new Afterword describing changes to the estuary and its watershed since the report was originally published in 1998.
Ground-water Resources and Water-supply Alternatives in the WaWona Area of Yosemite National Park, California
Author: James W. BorchersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Groundwater
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
Detailed Study of Water Quality, Bottom Sediment, and Biota Associated with Irrigation Drainage in the Salton Sea Area, California, 1988-90
Author: Irrigation, Drainage and Salinity
Author: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United NationsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Alkali lands
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description