A rich variety of water management techniques are employed throughout the world. This diversity reflects not only the myriad combinations of hydrologic and demand characteristics found from basin to basin but also the variety of institutional approaches to water management that can be employed. While some institutional approaches select river...
This is a report on water management activities that pertain to the operation of dams and reservoirs. Other water-related activities, for example, dredging of coastal harbors and their associated, water quality studies, as well as adjudication of groundwater rights, are not project operations activities and, therefore, are not included in...
Conservationists are locking horns with hydropower interests over the salmon runs of the Columbia River Basin in the Pacific Northwest. Hydro dams and stations threaten the salmon's spawning grounds, and concerned parties are seeking a balance between the need for electricity and the danger to the environment.
Inland water transport (IWT) ranks among the oldest uses of water. IWT has in several ways significantly affected spatial patterns of both biophysical and human phenomena. First it has facilitated spatial interaction, allowing greater degrees of specialization and exchange--one of the prerequisites of civilization. IWT was important in Pharonic Egypt...
This research investigates the implementation of the Federal Water Project Recreation Act (PL 89-72) in Oregon, comparing what is actually occurring with what Congress intended.
Congress intended the Act to accomplish three major goals: 1) The provision of uniform standards for the Corps of Engineers and Bureau of Reclamation when...
The present use of many floodplains is unsatisfactory. Despite 40 years of concerted effort to cope with flood hazards, annual flood losses now approximate $1.75 billion.
Intensified use of flood-prone lands accounts for much of the increasing losses, which offset many of the benefits from the nation's $9 billion expenditure...
The impact of floodplain regulations on mean appreciation rates of residential land values was tested at six study areas in five counties in western Oregon. The study hypothesis that such regulations significantly depress appreciation rates of regulated lands relative to those of similar unregulated lands was in most cases rejected....
Grand Coulee Dam is a massive concrete structure on the Columbia River in north-central Washington state. The dam and its related resource developments reflect evolving strategies of resource management in North America during the 20th century. They symbolize five themes: stimulation of economic development in remote areas; government enhancement of...
Intensive competition over water by states in the Delaware River basin prompted the formation of an innovative management mechanism. The Delaware River Basin Commission (DRBC) was the first federal-interstate compact in the U.S. Comprised of a single federal representative who is designed to coordinate federal actors and of the governors...
The development of water resources causes unintentional as well as intentional hydrologic alterations, both of which may have significant socioeconomic ramifications. Case one considers selected impacts of the rapid development of irrigated land upstream from large hydroelectric plants. This development is causing concern about the viability of industries that depend...