Integrated Water Resource Management
As defined by the Global Water Partnership, integrated water resource management is a process which promotes the coordinated development and management of water, land, and related resources in order to maximize the resultant economic and social welfare in an equitable manner without compromising the sustainability of vital ecosystems. Resources available within this theme provide guidance on how to conserve and restore watersheds, reduce pollution, adapt to climate change and reduce risks from floods and droughts.
Integrated Water Resource Management Resources
Predicting 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 AmericaMethods of Analysis for Waters, Organic Matter, and Pond Bottom Soils Used in Fisheries Research
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January 1, 1969U.S. Agency for International Development
This report provides guidance on water quality testing with respect to fisheries and increasing fish production and the methods to doing so.Read more
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United StatesNorth AmericaWater Conservation, Yesterday and Today: a Story of History, Culture and Politics
The National Institutes for Water Resources
Recently very much center stage and in the spotlight, water conservation seems to be an idea whose time has come. If, however, we define water conservation as the careful use of water to better maintain current supplies, then water conservation is not a recent development. What is relatively new is...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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United StatesNorth AmericaHolding Back the Waters: Dams as Water Resource Monuments
The National Institutes for Water Resources
This is a guiding premise in understanding dams. What they have in common their shared purposes of greater significance than their many differences. The following discussion is mainly about the smaller, little publicized dams.Read more
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United StatesNorth AmericaFountains--Water Wasters or Works of Art?
The National Institutes for Water Resources
Those of us conditioned by the ubiquitous precepts of water conservation may feel slightly squeamish about water fountains. We have been taught that not all water uses are equal, some are of more value than others. Drinking obviously is an essential water use but washing sidewalks and driveways is...Read more
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United StatesNorth AmericaManaging the Flow to Better Use, Preserve Arizona's Rivers
The National Institutes for Water Resources
River management plans are varied and complex, strategically developed for the circumstances of individual rivers. A river management plan may involve a single agency regulating a river or a more comprehensive effort, with varied organizations, from grassroots to federal, working together to ensure...Read more
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United StatesNorth AmericaWeather Modification: a Water Resource Strategy to Be Researched, Tested Before Tried
The National Institutes for Water Resources
Weather modification has a rather unique status among water resource issues. Along with attracting attention as a potential water supply source, weather modification is of interest because of its varied and changing status in the scientific and public policy communities; it has an aura of...Read more
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United StatesNorth AmericaKnowledge Sharing Resources from WASHFunders.Org
Foundation Center
Links to WASH-related online resources, which are categorized into: evaluation databases, foundations, governmental/multilateral networks/partnerships, news/blogs, non-governmental organizations and research.Read more
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