Download or read book Past and Future Freshwater Use in the United States written by Thomas Capnor Brown and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Past and Future Freshwater Use in the United States a Technical Document Supporting the 2000 USDA Forest Service RPA Assessment written by Thomas Brown and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2012-10-22 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Water withdrawals to cities, farms, and other offstream uses in the United States have increased over ten-fold during the twentieth century in response to tremendous population and economic growth. Further rapid growth in population and income is almost certain to occur, placing additional demands on water supplies. As withdrawals to offstream users increase, more water is consumed, leaving less water in streams. Streamflows have dropped at the same time as additional instream uses have been found by scientists studying the needs of aquatic plants and wildlife and the hydro-geologic requirements of river channels themselves, and as rising incomes and urbanization have intensified calls for maintaining water-based recreation opportunities and protecting water quality (Gillilan and Brown 1997). These changes amplify the importance of examining the future adequacy of the nation's water supply. As Congress recognized when it passed the Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning Act of 1974 requiring the Forest Service to periodically assess anticipated resource supply and demand conditions, with sufficient forethought necessary adjustments may be anticipated and unnecessary costs may be avoided. The adequacy of a water supply depends on water availability compared with water demand. This report focuses on water demand, and estimates future water use assuming that the water will be available. Comparison of water-use estimates presented in this report with estimates of future water availability is left to a later report. In economic terms, demand is a price-quantity relation. Unfortunately, such relations are difficult to specify for some water uses and for large geographic regions containing numerous market areas. Thus, an economic model was not adopted for this study. Instead, demand, as used in this report, refers to quantity requested. This quantity-based approach leaves the effect of price unspecified but not avoided. Because water and the resources needed to manage it are scarce, price has played an important role in determining the past quantities of water requested and will continue to do so. In what follows, the implicit role of price must be remembered. Demand for water differs by region. Arid areas have higher demands per user than do humid areas, all else equal. Within a region of homogeneous weather, demands differ geographically depending on the availability of arable land, reliance on thermoelectric power, and other factors. The many potential differences among geographic areas suggest that demand for water should be studied at the smallest geographical scale possible. However, existing small-scale studies, often performed using different variables or methods, do not lend themselves to broadscale conclusions about regional or national trends. This report projects water demand to the year 2040. The time horizon was selected based on the Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning Act, which mandates that the Forest Service periodically prepare a management plan for a period of roughly 45 years into the future. Of course, the likelihood that a projection is accurate decreases as the time horizon of that projection increases. The objective of this paper is to characterize past and future water use in the U.S. A national perspective is first adopted to present a basic understanding of water-use trends. Then water use is described for large regions of the U.S. to capture the major regional differences.
Download or read book Past and Future Freshwater Use in the United States written by Thomas Capnor Brown and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book 2000 RPA Assessment of Forest and Range Lands written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Past and Future Water Use in Pacific Coast States written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We examine socioeconomic factors affecting water demand and expected trends in these factors. Based on these trends, we identify past, current, and projected withdrawal of surface water for various uses in Pacific Coast States (California, Idaho, Oregon, and Washington), including public, domestic, commercial, industrial, thermoelectric, livestock, and irrigation. Additionally, we identify projected demands for nonconsumptive instream recreational uses of water, such as boating, swimming, and fishing, which can compete with consumptive uses. Allocating limited water resources across multiple users will present water resource managers and policymakers with distinct challenges as water demands increase. To illustrate these challenges, we present a case study of issues in the Klamath Basin of northern California and southern Oregon. The case study provides an example of the issues involved in allocating scarce water among diverse users and uses, and the difficulties policymakers face when attempting to design water allocation policies that require tradeoffs among economic, ecological, and societal values.
Download or read book General Technical Report RMRS written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rangeland Resource Trends in the United States written by John Edward Mitchell and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Twenty First Century U S Water Policy written by Juliet Christian-Smith and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-08-23 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents an analysis and recommendations for a new federal water policy from the Pacific Institute.
Download or read book General Technical Report PNW GTR written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 1022 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Economics Research Supporting Water Resource Stewardship in the Pacific Northwest written by Laurie L. Houston and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Economic Research Supporting Water Resource Stewardship in the Pacific Northwest written by Laurie L. Houston and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a print on demand edition of a hard to find publication. Knowledge about the value of water to different users and methods with which to evaluate biophysical, economic, ecological, and social tradeoffs associated with allocating limited water resources among competing uses is vital to devising appropriate and effective water resource policies. Intended primarily for non-economists, this report reviews existing water resource economics literature (as of 2002) concerning the economic value of water in different uses in the Pacific Northwest, the evaluation of tradeoffs among uses, and the use of economic incentives for water conservation and protection or enhancement of water quality. Includes an annotated bibliography of water resource economics research.
Download or read book Perspectives on Sustainable Resources in America written by Roger A. Professor Sedjo and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-09-30 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The vast size of the United States and extensive variation of its climate, topography, and biota across different regions contribute to both the richness of the nation‘s natural heritage and the complexities involved in managing its resources. A follow-up to RFF‘s popular America‘s Renewable Resources (1990), Perspectives on Sustainable Resources in America updates readers about the current challenges involved in managing America‘s natural resources, especially in light of the increasing emphasis on sustainability and ecosystem approaches to management. Written to inform general audiences and students, as well as to engage the interest of experts, the book includes assessments by some of the nation‘s most renowned scholars in natural resource economics and policy. An introductory chapter critically examines the concept of sustainability as it has been developed in recent years and asks how the concept might apply to individual resource systems. It considers the interrelatedness of ecosystem, economic, and social sustainability; the paradigms of resource sufficiency and functional integrity; and the contrast between weak and strong sustainability. The chapters that follow examine America‘s experience with forests, water, agricultural soils, and wildlife. Highlighting the adaptability and resilience of resource systems, each chapter provides a description of the physical characteristics of the resource, a history of its use, a policy history, and a review of ongoing debates in management and policy. Perspectives on Sustainable Resources in America concludes with an innovative treatment of biodiversity as a natural resource. The chapter reviews the definitions of biodiversity, the ecological and economic meanings of biodiversity, and current efforts to preserve biodiversity, especially through regulatory approaches.
Download or read book Water and People written by Stephen F. McCool and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2009-05 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Water is the source of life, the sustenance for living, the resource needed for mfg., mining, ag.; the element required to grow our lawns, to water our landscaping, to shower us with refreshment; it is the place where we play; it provides the snow for our winter recreation, and it provides the habitat for our wildlife. Water in Amer. society is more than a physical entity; its symbolic values and non-instrumental uses are growing in significance. This book is about the issues associated with these symbolic values and uses of water: the challenges they present -- in our language, in our allocation mechanisms, in our commun. -- the conflicts raised; and the potential for resolving the difficult, contentious and complex issues concerning the use of water for various purposes.
Download or read book Water and People written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Environmental Health written by Kathryn Hilgenkamp and published by Jones & Bartlett Learning. This book was released on 2005 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Environmental Health: Ecological Perspectives is intended as an environmental health text for both undergraduate and graduate levels. This text provides balanced coverage of how humans are affected by the quality of air, water, and food as well as how humans affect these survival necessities. The evolution and prosperity of the human species has resulted in concerns about pollution, overpopulation, and several other issues that are having a harmful effect on humans and our environment. This knowledge, along with an understanding of the legislation and history of environmental issues, will help students to make positive changes in their behavior and in the world around them.
Download or read book Bottled Water Production in the United States How Much Groundwater Is Actually Being Used written by Keith Eshleman and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2007-08-01 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While all ground water withdrawals should be managed in a sustainable and compatible manner, the study concluded that concerns about the bottled water industry's use of ground water are not science-based. Furthermore, effective management of ground water resources may be better accomplished by focusing on multi-jurisdictional ground water management policies that are based on sound science, consider all users, and treat all users equitably.
Download or read book Energy s Water Demand Trends Vulnerabilities and Management written by Nicole T. Carter and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The nation's energy choices embody many tradeoffs. Water use is one of those tradeoffs. The energy choices before Congress represent vastly different demands on domestic freshwater. The energy sector's water consumption is projected to rise 50% from 2005 to 2030. This rising water demand derives from both an increase in the amount of energy demanded and shifts to more water-intense energy sources and technologies. This report discusses this issue as well as related issues that may arise for the 112th Congress.
