Watershed Management and Restoration
According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, watershed management is the continuous process of creating and implementing plans, programs, and projects with partners using a multi-disciplinary and adaptive approach to sustain and enhance natural watersheds. Resources available in this sub-theme include watershed management technical reports, tools to assess flows in ecosystems, and other resources that support sustainable watershed management and restoration.
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Watershed Management and Restoration Resources
Case Studies Analyzing the Economic Benefits of Low Impact Development and Green Infrastructure Programs
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August 1, 2013The National Institutes for Water Resources
This report was prepared to help utilities, state and municipal agencies, and other storm water professionals understand the potential benefits of their low impact development (LID) and green infrastructure (GI) programs. The objectives are to highlight different evaluation methods that have...Read more
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United StatesNorth AmericaHavasu Canyon Watershed
Published:
June 1, 2010The National Institutes for Water Resources
Assessment involving the collection of readily available quantitative and qualitative information to develop a watershed profile, and sufficient analysis of that information to generate an appraisal of the conservation needs of the watershed.Read more
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United StatesNorth AmericaPhiladelphia Water Department "Green City - Clean Water" Program
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October 1, 2009The National Institutes for Water Resources
PWD's 'Green City - Clean Water' program integrates management of Philadelphia's watersheds into this larger context. It is designed to provide many benefits beyond the reduction of combined sewer overflows, so that every dollar spent provides a maximum return in benefits to the...Read more
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United StatesNorth AmericaUrban Forest Values: Economic Benefits of Trees in Cities
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November 1, 1998The National Institutes for Water Resources
Many important decisions in American cities are based on careful cost and benefit analysis of options. Yet the values of trees and plants in our urban centers are often overlooked. Urban forests are a significant and increasingly valuable asset of the urban environment. Scientists have measured the...Read more
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United StatesNorth AmericaEnvironmental Studies and Natural Resource Management: an Annotated Guide to University and Government Training Programs in the United States
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January 1, 1980U.S. Agency for International Development
This report was prepared by the Sierra Club and addresses university courses with emphasis on environmental sustainability and the impact of human activities on areas such as forests, waterways, islands, mountains, and grazing lands.Read more
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United StatesNorth AmericaThe Economics of Water Reform: Institutional Design for Improved Management in LdC
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January 1, 1977U.S. Agency for International Development
Deals with the productivity of irrigated agriculture but, at the same time, emphasizes the importance of equity in irrigated systems. Suggests irrigation potentials may be expanded through the construction of new projects; rehabilitation and modification of the infrastructure in existing projects;...Read more
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United StatesNorth AmericaNumerical Model of Flow in a Stream - Aquifer System
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November 5, 1974U.S. Agency for International DevelopmentColorado State University
A three-dimensional, finite difference model was developed for simulating steady and unsteady, saturated and unsaturated flow in a stream-aquifer system. The basis of the model is the finite difference form of Richard's equation for unsaturated and saturated subsurface flow. Effects of stream...Read more
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United StatesNorth AmericaPredicting the Hydrologic Effects of Land Modification
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June 20, 1973U.S. Agency for International Development
In summary, by comparing the "before" and "after" predicted hydrologic outputs from a coupled stochastic rainfall model and a deterministic method for estimating runoff, a procedure for comparing the hydrologic effects of land use changes on ungauged watersheds has been...Read more
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United StatesNorth AmericaHow Trees Can Retain Stormwater Runoff
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December 31, 1969The National Institutes for Water Resources
Trees in our communities provide many services beyond the inherent beauty they lend to streets and properties. One of the most overlooked and underappreciated is their ability to reduce the volume of water rushing through gutters and pipes following a storm. This means less investment in expensive...Read more
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United StatesNorth AmericaManaging Watersheds to Improve Land and Water
The National Institutes for Water Resources
At first glance, the term watershed management appears to be self-explanatory, its meaning apparent in its very wording. Watershed management is the managing of a watershed. At best, however, this definition is merely the starting point and might appropriately be compared to the initial upland flow...Read more
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