Water Resources

With papers from researches and managers representing the multiple viewpoints of climate forecasting, water management, water law, and water allocation, 'Water and Climate in the Western United States' demonstrates that new technologies and a new scientific understanding of the water cycle are emerging.

Presents a compilation of the state-of-the-art subjects and techniques in the education and practice of groundwater and describes them in a systematic and integrated fashion useful for undergraduate and graduate students and practitioners. The book develops a system view of groundwater fundamentals and model-making techniques through the application of science, engineering, planning, and management principles.

This book explores the broad range of determinants defining global change and their effects on river ecosystems.

Throughout the arid American West, metropolitan areas need water. Cities are growing, but water supplies are dwindling. Scientists agree that the West is heating up and drying out, leading to future water shortages that will pose a challenge to existing laws. Dam Nation looks first to the past, to the stories of the California gold rush and the earliest attempts by men to shape the landscape and tame it, takes us to the "Great American Desert" and the settlement of the west under the theory that "rain follows the plow," and then takes on the ongoing legal and moral battles in the West.

This book provides a qualitative understanding of hydrologic processes & an introduction to methods for quantifying hydrologic parameters & processes.