General Publications/Information
- The Regulated Riparian Model Water Code
- Proposed state level legislation for allocating water rights among competing interests developed by the Amercian Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). Available for purchase through ASCE for $35.00 (non-members).
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- U.S. Geological Survey Circular 1186
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- Tapped Out: The Coming World Crisis in Water and What We can do About it, by Paul Simon, 1998, Welcome Rain Publishers, New York.
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- Water Resources Planning: Manual of Water Supply Planning Practices (M50), Second Edition (1/07), AWWA.
- Available for purchase through AWWA for $120.00 (non-members) at www.techstreet.com/awwagate.html by typing M50 in the Search Box (upper left hand corner) and clicking GO.
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- Safe Water is Essential
- A production of the National Academy of Sciences’ Koshland Science Museum, in cooperation with the Water Science and Technology Board and the Office of International Programs. It examines the state of the world’s water supply and what can be done to improve it. The sources section reveals where water is found on Earth, how such areas can be protected and types of management techniques.
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- Integrated Water Resource Planning (Palmer) (pdf ~0.3mb)
- A holistic approach to water system management, combining supply, demand, quality, environmental protection, financial planning and public participation.
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- A Strategy For Federal Science And Technology To Support Water Availability and Quality (pdf ~3.3mb)
- A new (9/07) report from the National Science & Technology Council providing an overview of challenges in the pursuit of adequate fresh water supplies; laying out associated research priorities; and providing recommendations for a Federal science strategy to address this important issue.
