Water Policy over 35 Years

$162.00

Dillon J. Sykes (Editor)

Series: Water Resource Planning, Development and Management
BISAC: TEC010030

The responsibility for development, management, and allocation of the nation’s water resources is spread among federal, state, local, tribal and private interests. From improvements first to facilitate navigation, and later to reduce flood damages and expand irrigation in the West, the federal government has been called upon to assist with and pay for a multitude of water resource development projects. In recent decades, it also has regulated water quality, protected fish and wildlife, and facilitated water supply augmentation. Moreover, the impacts of population growth, development, and climate change are placing increasing stress on our Nation’s water supplies. This book provides an overview of the set of challenges that face us in pursuit of adequate fresh water supplies, lays out the research priorities associated with those challenges and provides recommendations for a federal science to address this important issue. This book consists of public documents which have been located, gathered, combined, reformatted, and enhanced with a subject index, selectively edited and bound to provide easy access.

 

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Preface

35 Years of Water Policy: The 1973 National Water Commission and Present Challenges
(Betsy A. Cody, Coordinator, Specialist in Natural Resources Policy, Nicole T. Carter, Coordinator, Specialist in Natural Resources Policy, CRS, May 11, 2009)

A Strategy for Federal Science and Technology to Support Water Availability and Quality in the United States
(National Science and Technology Council, Committee on Environment and Natural Resources, September, 2007)

Index

 

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