Water Resource Management Sustainability in an Era of Climate Change
This book is about how water managers in the United States are responding to the call for increased effort to achieve sustainable supplies of clean fresh water for present and future generations. The author, himself a participant in the water supply chain
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David E. McNabb
Water Resource Management Sustainability in an Era of Climate Change
David E. McNabb Pacific Lutheran University Tacoma, Washington, USA
ISBN 978-3-319-54815-9 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-54816-6
ISBN 978-3-319-54816-6 (eBook)
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America’s water resources—streams, rivers, wetlands, estuaries, lakes and coasts—are at the heart of our environment, our economy and out history. The quality and quantity of water resources affect all levels of our society from the national to the individual citizen. A nation that fails to plan intelligently for the development and protection of its precious waters will be condemned to wither because of its shortsightedness. The hard lessons of history are clear, written on the deserted sands and ruins of once-proud civilizations. President Lyndon B. Johnson Message submitting to Congress the first assessment of the Nation’s water resources, 1968
For the men and women who toil in the Nation’s water world.
Preface
This book is about how water managers in the United States are responding to the call for increased effort to achieve sustainable supplies of clean fresh water for the present and future generations. Water managers face many barriers in their efforts to achieve sustainability in the supply of this resource. While water is indeed one of life’s most essential commodities, in many parts of the country it is one of, if not the, most stressed resources. Americans traditionally hav
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