Download or read book Water Watersheds and Land Use in New Mexico written by Peggy Sue Johnson and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Proceedings 46th Annual New Mexico Water Conference written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Water Policy in New Mexico written by David Brookshire and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-07-04 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses water management issues in the State of New Mexico. It focuses on our current understanding of the natural world, capabilities in numerical modeling, existing and evolving regulatory frameworks, and specific issues such as water quality, endangered species and the evolution of new water management institutions. Similar to its neighboring states, New Mexico regularly experiences cycles of drought. It is also experiencing rapid economic growth while at the same time is experiencing a fundamental climate shift. These factors place severe demands on its scarce water resources. In addition to historical uses by the native inhabitants of the region and the agricultural sector, new competitive uses have emerged which will require reallocation. This effort is complicated by unadjudicated water rights, the need to balance the ever-increasing needs of growing urban and rural populations, and the requirements of the ecosystem and traditional users. It is clear that New Mexico, as with other semi-arid states and regions, must find efficient ways to reallocate water among various beneficial uses. This book discusses how a proper coordination of scientific understanding, modeling advancements, and new and emerging institutional structures can help in achieving improved strategies for water policy and management. To do so, it calls upon the expertise of academics from multiple disciplines, as well as officials from federal and state agencies, to describe in understandable terms the issues currently being faced and how they can be addressed via an iterative strategy of adaptive management.
Download or read book The Small Watershed Program in New Mexico written by United States. Soil Conservation Service and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bitter Waters written by Patrick Dearen and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2016-03-09 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rising at 11,750 feet in the Sangre de Cristo range and snaking 926 miles through New Mexico and Texas to the Rio Grande, the Pecos River is one of the most storied waterways in the American West. It is also one of the most troubled. In 1942, the National Resources Planning Board observed that the Pecos River basin “probably presents a greater aggregation of problems associated with land and water use than any other irrigated basin in the Western U.S.” In the twenty-first century, the river’s problems have only multiplied. Bitter Waters, the first book-length study of the entire Pecos, traces the river’s environmental history from the arrival of the first Europeans in the sixteenth century to today. Running clear at its source and turning salty in its middle reach, the Pecos River has served as both a magnet of veneration and an object of scorn. Patrick Dearen, who has written about the Pecos since the 1980s, draws on more than 150 interviews and a wealth of primary sources to trace the river’s natural evolution and man’s interaction with it. Irrigation projects, dams, invasive saltcedar, forest proliferation, fires, floods, flow decline, usage conflicts, water quality deterioration—Dearen offers a thorough and clearly written account of what each factor has meant to the river and its prospects. As fine-grained in detail as it is sweeping in breadth, the picture Bitter Waters presents is sobering but not without hope, as it also extends to potential solutions to the Pecos River’s problems and the current efforts to undo decades of damage. Combining the research skills of an accomplished historian, the investigative techniques of a veteran journalist, and the engaging style of an award-winning novelist, this powerful and accessible work of environmental history may well mark a turning point in the Pecos’s fortunes.
Download or read book Water Resources Data written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Runoff and Sediment Yield from Proxy Records written by W. R. Osterkamp and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyses of water- and sediment-yield records from the Walnut Gulch Experimental Watershed, the San Simon Wash Basin, and the Jornada Experimental Range, combined with observations of regional variations in climate, geology and soils, vegetation, topography, fire frequency, and land-use history, allow estimates of present conditions of water and sediment discharges in the upper Animas Creek Basin, New Mexico. Further, the records are used to anticipate fluxes of water and sediment should watershed conditions change. Results, intended principally for hydrologists, geomorphologists, and resource managers, suggest that discharges of water and sediment in the upper Animas Creek Basin approximate those of historic, undisturbed conditions, and that erosion rates may be generally lower than those of comparison watersheds. If conversion of grassland to shrubland occurs, sediment yields, due to accelerated upland gully erosion, may increase by 1 to 3 orders of magnitude. However, much of the released sediment would likely be deposited along Animas Creek, never leaving the upper Animas Creek Basin.
Download or read book Water Transfers in the West written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Acequia Culture written by José A. Rivera and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2005-01-21 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conflicts between Hispanic farmers and developers made for compelling reading in The Milagro Beanfield War, the famous novel of life in a northern New Mexico village in which tradition triumphs over modernity. But as cities grow and industries expand, are acequias, or community irrigation ditches, a wise and efficient use of water in the arid Southwest? José Rivera presents the contemporary case for the value of acequias and the communities they nurture in the river valleys of southern Colorado and New Mexico. Recognizing that "water is the lifeblood of the community," Rivera delineates an acequia culture based on a reciprocal relationship between irrigation and community. The acequia experience grows out of a conservation ethic and a tradition of sharing that should be recognized and preserved in an age of increasing competition for scarce water resources. "A worthwhile contribution to the future management of water resources."--Professor Michael C. Meyer
Download or read book Water Resources Research Catalog written by and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 1464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Water Facilities Area Plan for the Rio Moquino Watershed New Mexico written by United States. Bureau of Agricultural Economics. Division of Land Economics and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Water Resources Development in New Mexico written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Water Resources of New Mexico Occurrence Development and Use written by New Mexico. State Engineer Office and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arkansas River Basin--Pecos River Basin--Central Closed Basins--Rio Grande Basin--Western Closed Basins--San Juan River Basin--Lower Colorado River Basin-- Southwestern Closed Basins.
Download or read book Upper Rio Grande Basin New Mexico written by United States. Soil Conservation Service and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Red River Watershed--Embudo Creek Watershed--Pojoaque Creek Watershed--San Mateo-Grants Canyon Watershed--Pole-Zuni Canyons Watershed--Rio San José Watershed--Santa Fe River Watershed--Galisteo Creek Watershed--Rio Leche & Nacimiento Watershed--Rock Lake Watershed--Tajique Watershed--Buffalo Springs Watershed--Hyer Draw Watershed--Interrelated Watersheds Upper Rio Grande Basin--Pajarito Arroyos Watershed--Hell's Canyon Watershed--Canyon Sales Watershed--Pino Draw Watershed--Lemitar-Polvadera Watershed--Walnut Creek Watershed--Interrelated Watersheds Grants Sub-Basin--Sa.
Download or read book U S Geological Survey Circular written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Water in New Mexico written by Ira G. Clark and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 866 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most comprehensive reference on the state's most precious resource is now back in print.
Download or read book National Resources Development Report written by United States. National Resources Planning Board and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 1136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
