America's water crises : the impact of drought and climate change / David E. McNabb, Carl R. Swenson.
This book is focused exclusively on water problems in the 48 U.S. states. The authors provide an accessible overview of the work of many federal, state and academic researchers and water system administrators whose investigations have focused on the state of water and the water crisis now accelerati...
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Palgrave Macmillan,
[2023]
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Table of Contents:
- Part I. The water world
- 1. Water, America's most valuable natural resource
- 2. A warm, wet, crowded world
- 3. The nature of a water crisis
- Part II. Shape of the water resource
- 4. Drought's role in a water crisis
- 5. Surface water: the fading everyday resource
- 6. Groundwater: the disappearing buried resource
- 7. Stored water: human and nature storage dam crises
- 8. Repairing infrastructure and reusing water
- Part III. Regional problems and solutions
- 9. Water crises in the west
- 10. Water crises in the southwest
- 11. Water crises in the high plains region
- 12. Water crises in the Great Lakes region
- 13. Water crises in the south region
- 14. Water crises in the Appalachian Mountains region
- 15. Water crises in the mid-Atlantic region
- 16. Water crises in the northeast region
- Bibliography
- Index.