Water Resources of the New Orleans Area
Author : Claude Martin Roberts
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Page : 12 pages
File Size : 17,12 MB
Release : 1955
Category : Coal
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Author : Claude Martin Roberts
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Page : 12 pages
File Size : 17,12 MB
Release : 1955
Category : Coal
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Page : 196 pages
File Size : 44,36 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Water resources development
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Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment
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Page : 304 pages
File Size : 25,90 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Law
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Author : Sharad K. Jain
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 883 pages
File Size : 28,69 MB
Release : 2003-09-12
Category : Science
ISBN : 0080543693
This book is divided into four parts. The first part, Preliminaries, begins by introducing the basic theme of the book. It provides an overview of the current status of water resources utilization, the likely scenario of future demands, and advantages and disadvantages of systems techniques. An understanding of how the hydrological data are measured and processed is important before undertaking any analysis. The discussion is extended to emerging techniques, such as Remote Sensing, GIS, Artificial Neural Networks, and Expert Systems. The statistical tools for data analysis including commonly used probability distributions, parameter estimation, regression and correlation, frequency analysis, and time-series analysis are discussed in a separate chapter. Part 2 Decision Making, is a bouquet of techniques organized in 4 chapters. After discussing optimization and simulation, the techniques of economic analysis are covered. Recently, environmental and social aspects, and rehabilitation and resettlement of project-affected people have come to occupy a central stage in water resources management and any good book is incomplete unless these topics are adequately covered. The concept of rational decision making along with risk, reliability, and uncertainty aspects form subject matter of a chapter. With these analytical tools, the practitioner is well equipped to take a rational decision for water resources utilization. Part 3 deals with Water Resources Planning and Development. This part discusses the concepts of planning, the planning process, integrated planning, public involvement, and reservoir sizing.The last part focuses on Systems Operation and Management. After a resource is developed, it is essential to manage it in the best possible way. Many dams around the world are losing some storage capacity every year due to sedimentation and therefore, the assessment and management of reservoir sedimentation is described in details. No analysis of water resources systems is complete without consideration of water quality. A river basin is the natural unit in which water occurs. The final chapter discusses various issues related to holistic management of a river basin.
Author : United States. Superintendent of Documents
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Page : 992 pages
File Size : 37,30 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Government publications
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February issue includes Appendix entitled Directory of United States Government periodicals and subscription publications; September issue includes List of depository libraries; June and December issues include semiannual index
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Page : 962 pages
File Size : 38,8 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Government publications
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Page : 782 pages
File Size : 22,90 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Government publications
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Page : 956 pages
File Size : 23,61 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Hydrology
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Author : United States. Department of the Interior. Library
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Page : 734 pages
File Size : 26,11 MB
Release : 1969
Category : Library catalogs
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Author : Craig E. Colten
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 36,62 MB
Release : 2014-10-13
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0807156523
Water has dominated images of the South throughout history, from Hernando de Soto's 1541 crossing of the Mississippi to tragic scenes of flooding throughout the Gulf South after Hurricane Katrina. But these images tell only half the story: as urban, industrial, and population growth create unprecedented demands on water in the South, the problems of pollution and water shortages grow ever more urgent. In Southern Waters: The Limits to Abundance, Craig E. Colten addresses how the South -- in an environment fraught with uncertainty -- can navigate the twin risks of too much water and not enough. From the arrival of the first European settlers, the South's inhabitants have pursued a course of maximum exploitation and control of the area's plentiful waters, investing widely in wetland drainage and massive flood-control projects. Disputes over southern waterways go back nearly as far: obstruction of fish migration by mill dams prompted new policies to protect aquatic life as early as the colonial era. Colten argues that such conflicts, which have heightened dramatically since the explosive urbanization of the mid-twentieth century, will only become more frequent and intense, making the shift toward sustainable use a national imperative. In tracing the evolving uses and abuses of southern waters, Colten offers crucial insights into the complex historical geography of water throughout the region. A masterful analysis of the ways in which past generations harnessed and consumed water, Southern Waters also stands as a guide to adapting our water usage to cope with the looming shortage of this once-abundant resource.