Titlebook: Water Resources of North America; Asit K. Biswas Book 2003 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2003 Generation.Groundwater.Institution.Water

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Institutional and Legal Framework for Water Managementonstitution is to divide authority between the federal and provincial levels of government on the basis of individual specified heads of power, which in most cases are exclusive to one of the two levels (agriculture is a notable exception that is shared between the two levels of government). Because

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Physical Context68 to 125 degrees west longitude (Figure 15.1). The total area of the United States is 9,629,091 square kilometers, 470,131 square kilometers of which are water. The nation contains 50 states, several associated territories, the District of Columbia, and approximately 275 Native American land areas

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Socioeconomic Aspectsulation has grown steadily over the past century (Figure 16.2, Table 16.1), at annual rates ranging from 0.95% to 2.10%. Currently the rate of population growth has slowed to an annual rate of 0.85%. The birth rate is 14.3 births per 1000 people, the death rate is 8.8 deaths per 1,000 people, and th

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Institutional Framework For Water Managementng jurisdictions. Resources are frequently managed through cooperation between many federal and state agencies, or by delegation of authority by federal agencies to state entities. This chapter provides brief overviews of the legal framework governing water use and the functions of the primary feder

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Water Storage and Regulation Infrastructureded flood protection, irrigation water, and inexpensive power. The number of dams in the United States has been estimated at more than 2.5 million, among them 75,000 dams greater than 6 feet in height (NRC, 1992). That number includes 7,782 major dams 50 feet or more in height, or with a normal stor