Colorado River Basin Water Management
Colorado River Basin Water Management

Author: National Research Council

Publisher: National Academies Press

Published: 2007-06-30

Total Pages: 222

ISBN-13: 0309105242

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Recent studies of past climate and streamflow conditions have broadened understanding of long-term water availability in the Colorado River, revealing many periods when streamflow was lower than at any time in the past 100 years of recorded flows. That information, along with two important trends-a rapid increase in urban populations in the West and significant climate warming in the region-will require that water managers prepare for possible reductions in water supplies that cannot be fully averted through traditional means. Colorado River Basin Water Management assesses existing scientific information, including temperature and streamflow records, tree-ring based reconstructions, and climate model projections, and how it relates to Colorado River water supplies and demands, water management, and drought preparedness. The book concludes that successful adjustments to new conditions will entail strong and sustained cooperation among the seven Colorado River basin states and recommends conducting a comprehensive basinwide study of urban water practices that can be used to help improve planning for future droughts and water shortages.

Goodbye to a River
Goodbye to a River

Author: John Graves

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2010-11-10

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 0307773353

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In the 1950s, a series of dams was proposed along the Brazos River in north-central Texas. For John Graves, this project meant that if the stream’s regimen was thus changed, the beautiful and sometimes brutal surrounding countryside would also change, as would the lives of the people whose rugged ancestors had eked out an existence there. Graves therefore decided to visit that stretch of the river, which he had known intimately as a youth. Goodbye to a River is his account of that farewell canoe voyage. As he braves rapids and fatigue and the fickle autumn weather, he muses upon old blood feuds of the region and violent skirmishes with native tribes, and retells wild stories of courage and cowardice and deceit that shaped both the river’s people and the land during frontier times and later. Nearly half a century after its initial publication, Goodbye to a River is a true American classic, a vivid narrative about an exciting journey and a powerful tribute to a vanishing way of life and its ever-changing natural environment.

Hearings
Hearings

Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs

Publisher:

Published: 1962

Total Pages: 954

ISBN-13:

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Geological Survey Bulletin
Geological Survey Bulletin

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 1961

Total Pages: 612

ISBN-13:

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This bibliography represents work done jointly by Ruth Reece King, Virginia M. Jussen, Elisabeth S. Loud, Georgianna D. Conant, Mildred Challman, and Eleanor H. de Chadenèdes.