Water Resources Research Progress
Title | Water Resources Research Progress PDF eBook |
Author | Liam N. Robinson |
Publisher | Nova Publishers |
Total Pages | 452 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 9781600219733 |
Water resources are sources of water that are useful or potentially useful to humans. They are important because they are needed for life to exist. Many uses of water include agricultural, industrial, household, recreational and environmental activities. Virtually all of these human uses require fresh water. Only 2.7% of water on the Earth is fresh water, and over two thirds of this is frozen in glaciers and polar ice caps, leaving only 0.007% available for human use. Fresh water is a renewable resource, yet the world's supply of clean, fresh water is steadily decreasing. Water demand already exceeds supply in many parts of the world, and as world population continues to rise at an unprecedented rate, many more areas are expected to experience this imbalance in the near future. The framework for allocating water resources to water users (where such a framework exists) is known as water rights. This new book presents recent and important research in the field.
Federal Water Resources Research Program for Fiscal Year 1965
Title | Federal Water Resources Research Program for Fiscal Year 1965 PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Committee on Water Resources Research |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 80 |
Release | 1964 |
Genre | Water conservation |
ISBN |
Federal Water Resources Research Program for Fiscal Year 1965 ... A Progress Report of the Committee on Water Resources Research
Title | Federal Water Resources Research Program for Fiscal Year 1965 ... A Progress Report of the Committee on Water Resources Research PDF eBook |
Author | Federal Council for Science and Technology (U.S.). Committee on Water Resources Research |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 65 |
Release | 1964 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Confronting the Nation's Water Problems
Title | Confronting the Nation's Water Problems PDF eBook |
Author | National Research Council |
Publisher | National Academies Press |
Total Pages | 324 |
Release | 2004-10-14 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 030916589X |
In order to confront the increasingly severe water problems faced by all parts of the country, the United States needs to make a new commitment to research on water resources. A new mechanism is needed to coordinate water research currently fragmented among nearly 20 federal agencies. Given the competition for water among farmers, communities, aquatic ecosystems and other users-as well as emerging challenges such as climate change and the threat of waterborne diseases-Confronting the Nation's Water Problems concludes that an additional $70 million in federal funding should go annually to water research. Funding should go specifically to the areas of water demand and use, water supply augmentation, and other institutional research topics. The book notes that overall federal funding for water research has been stagnant in real terms for the past 30 years and that the portion dedicated to research on water use and social science topics has declined considerably.
Progress Report Series
Title | Progress Report Series PDF eBook |
Author | University of Nevada. Center for Water Resources Research |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | |
Release | 19?? |
Genre | Water |
ISBN |
Federal Water Resources Research Program for Fiscal Year 1966
Title | Federal Water Resources Research Program for Fiscal Year 1966 PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Committee on Water Resources Research |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 10 |
Release | 1965 |
Genre | Water conservation |
ISBN |
Hydrogeophysics
Title | Hydrogeophysics PDF eBook |
Author | Yorum Rubin |
Publisher | Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | 518 |
Release | 2006-05-06 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 1402031025 |
This ground-breaking work is the first to cover the fundamentals of hydrogeophysics from both the hydrogeological and geophysical perspectives. Authored by leading experts and expert groups, the book starts out by explaining the fundamentals of hydrological characterization, with focus on hydrological data acquisition and measurement analysis as well as geostatistical approaches. The fundamentals of geophysical characterization are then at length, including the geophysical techniques that are often used for hydrogeological characterization. Unlike other books, the geophysical methods and petrophysical discussions presented here emphasize the theory, assumptions, approaches, and interpretations that are particularly important for hydrogeological applications. A series of hydrogeophysical case studies illustrate hydrogeophysical approaches for mapping hydrological units, estimation of hydrogeological parameters, and monitoring of hydrogeological processes. Finally, the book concludes with hydrogeophysical frontiers, i.e. on emerging technologies and stochastic hydrogeophysical inversion approaches.