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Institutional capacity building through land and water stewardship integration - an analysis of source water protection in Corvallis, Oregon

Creator:: Odom, Olivia
Abstract:: Globally, access to safe, reliable drinking water sources is a major challenge of this generation. Protected sources of drinking water provide communities with a sustainable, vital resource, yet many public water suppliers lack legal authority over their source water protection (SWP) area, especially in surface water systems. Absence of legal...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: - McKenzie Watershed Emergency Response System, EWEB................ 32 4.5.2 Water supply emergency

Beyond Cooperation : Environmental Justice in Transboundary Water Management

Creator:: Watson, Julie Elkins
Abstract:: Since the Wolf, Yoffe, and Giordano 2003 Basins at Risk study, examining human interactions with transboundary water resources through a lens of conflict and cooperation has been a dominant paradigm. The Basins at Risk (BAR) method involves categorizing events on a scale from most conflictive (e.g. war or extensive casualties)...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: ..................................................................................................... 132 Better understand how water relates to social/environmental justice ..................... 132

Characterizing and Assessing the Researcher-Stakeholder Engagement Process for Water Sustainability : The Willamette Water 2100 Project

Creator:: Ferguson, Laura B.
Abstract:: Natural resource management and policy is ideally informed by the best available science. Natural resource researchers ideally participate in broader impacts activities to extend the reach of their best available research. However, there are many cultural, institutional, and practical barriers to participating in broader impact activities and to incorporating science...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: research team projects water supply in the system by modeling climate and hydrological processes as well

Enhancing social-ecological resilience in the Colorado River Basin

Creator:: Eidem, Nathan T.
Abstract:: This research presents the Colorado River basin as a social-ecological system. Utilizing event data on cooperative and conflictive interactions over fresh water, the system is decomposed to look for evidence of outcomes of resilience enhancement. The Animas-La Plata Project in the upper San Juan basin is presented as a case...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: ...................................................... 75 CHAPTER 3: DECOMPOSING A SOCIAL-ECOLOGICAL SYSTEM: INTERACTIONS OVER FRESH WATER IN

An investigation and analysis of the incentives and disincentives for conflict prevention and mitigation in the Bureau of Reclamation's water management

Creator:: Ogren, Kimberly
Abstract:: This study addresses the question: "What are the incentives and disincentives for conflict prevention and mitigation in the Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation), and how do they factor into Reclamation's management of water in the western United States?" Incentives and disincentives for conflict prevention (i.e., actions taken to avoid conflict) and...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: water supply would be the primary cause of conflict. However, it was determined that rapid

An economic analysis of the municipal demand for water in Kuwait

Creator:: Al-Qunaibet, Mohammad H.
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: water supply of the country. This source provided 89 percent of the total fresh water supply in 1981

The effects of using a cation exchange water softener on blood pressure

Creator:: Kang, Ki Sung
Abstract:: Water in 70 percent of the cities in the United States is hard enough that softening is either required or recommended. It is estimated that approximately 30 percent of all homes in the United States use water softeners. Water softeners, the cation exchange types suited for residential use, exchange sodium...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: the United States, White et al., found that about 42% of municipal water supply samples are

Water quality impacts of free ranging cattle in semi-arid environments

Creator:: Larsen, Royce E.
Abstract:: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effects that free ranging cattle have on water quality in semi-arid environments. There were three specific objectives: 1) To determine the concentration and distribution of cattle feces in meadows, riparian zones, and the associated uplands. 2) To determine the fecal deposition...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: constant temperature of 21°C. Wind affects were eliminated. Since the Logan city water supply was used to

Water resources policy issues, 1975 : seminar conducted by Water Resources Research Institute, Oregon State University

Creator:: Oregon State University. Water Resources Research Institute
Resource Type:: Conference Proceeding
Full Text:: water purification and reuse ; and (2) consider economic and social consequences of water resource

The Value of New Technology : View Toward Reassessment

Creator:: White, Stephen J.
Abstract:: Abraham Heschel wrote that a philosopher's primary task was not merely to describe and judge the modes and facts of actual human behavior, but also to examine and understand the meaninq of those descriptions and judgements of modes and facts (Bella, 1978). Our values are critically tied to our structures...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: observation and its ramifications in a business organizational, social, political and public administrative

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Institutional capacity building through land and water stewardship integration - an analysis of source water protection in Corvallis, Oregon

Beyond Cooperation : Environmental Justice in Transboundary Water Management

Characterizing and Assessing the Researcher-Stakeholder Engagement Process for Water Sustainability : The Willamette Water 2100 Project

Enhancing social-ecological resilience in the Colorado River Basin

An investigation and analysis of the incentives and disincentives for conflict prevention and mitigation in the Bureau of Reclamation's water management

An economic analysis of the municipal demand for water in Kuwait

The effects of using a cation exchange water softener on blood pressure

Water quality impacts of free ranging cattle in semi-arid environments

Water resources policy issues, 1975 : seminar conducted by Water Resources Research Institute, Oregon State University

The Value of New Technology : View Toward Reassessment

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