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External Pressures on the Resource: Growth and Urbanization,ter resource. Most of the U.S. population now lives in cities. Together, population growth urbanization and climate change are contributing to more and more harmful flooding as storm water runoff reduces the normal stream flow and limits the natural absorption of storm water, while at the same time

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Beginnings of Water Management in the U.S,ather, it was the desire of a few far-sighted Founding Fathers to ensuring free transportation for everyone on the country’s many rivers, lakes, and other watercourses. This was also one of the reasons for a strong central government to counter the Confederation’s inability to fund desired improveme

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Water Resource Management Comes of Age,ntrol Act of 1948. This law authorized the Surgeon General of the Public Health Service, with other federal, state, and local agencies, to prepare programs for eliminating or reducing the pollution of interstate waters and tributaries. The bill was extended for another three years and was then super

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Managing Water Conflicts,red during the twentieth century resulted from the separation of powers in U.S. government. Water management authority has been divided among many different agencies and between the federal and state levels of government. As a result, no uniform policy has been established. Federal policy determinat

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Managing Storm, Flood, and Runoff Water,e resource: stormwater, urban runoff, and flood waters. Managing these unconventional water forms has become particularly important in all parts of the nation—but for very different reasons. Water managers in the sections of the country where shifts in precipitation patterns involve searching for co

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Managing Recycled Water,non-food crops, or industrial and environmental purposes, and for impoundment and groundwater recharge. Water reuse involves taking domestic wastewater, giving it a high degree of treatment, and using the resulting high-quality reclaimed water for a new, beneficial purpose. This chapter reviews the