This resource highlights new approaches that Arizona has pioneered for managing its water needs. Written by well-known Arizona water experts, the essays in this book address these issues from academic, professional, and policy perspectives that include economics, climatology, law, and engineering. (Environmental Studies)
This resource highlights new approaches that Arizona has pioneered for managing its water needs. Written by well-known Arizona water experts, the essays in this book address these issues from academic, professional, and policy perspectives that include economics, climatology, law, and engineering. (Environmental Studies)
Bonnie G. Colby is a professor of agricultural and resource economics at the University of Arizona. Her previous books include Braving the Currents: Resolving Conflicts Over the River Basins of the West. Katharine L. Jacobs is the executive director of the Arizona Water Institute, a consortium of the three Arizona state universities, and has more than 20 years experience in water management.
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Contents Figures and Tables Foreword About the Contributors Acknowledgments 1. Water Management Challenges in an Arid Region: Key Policy Issues 2. Shaped by Water: An Arizona Historical Perspective 3. Balancing Competing Interests: The History of State and Federal Water Laws 4. The Water Supply of Arizona: The Geographic Distribution of Availability and Patterns of Use 5. Drought, Climate Variability, and Implications for Water Supply and Management 6. Water Transactions: Enhancing Supply Reliability during Drought 7. Sustaining People, Habitats, and Ecosystems: The Challenge of Integrating Water Policy and the Environment 8. The Disconnect between Water Law and Hydrology 9. Protecting the Supply: Arizona's Water Quality Challenges 10. Implications of Federal Farm Policy and State Regulation on Agricultural Water Use 11. Urban Growth and Water Supply 12. Water Supply and Management in Rural Arizona 13. Arizona's Recharge and Recovery Programs 14. Tribal Water Claims and Settlements within Regional Water Management 15. Lessons for Semiarid Regions Facing Growth and Competition for Water Index
Contents Figures and Tables Foreword About the Contributors Acknowledgments 1. Water Management Challenges in an Arid Region: Key Policy Issues 2. Shaped by Water: An Arizona Historical Perspective 3. Balancing Competing Interests: The History of State and Federal Water Laws 4. The Water Supply of Arizona: The Geographic Distribution of Availability and Patterns of Use 5. Drought, Climate Variability, and Implications for Water Supply and Management 6. Water Transactions: Enhancing Supply Reliability during Drought 7. Sustaining People, Habitats, and Ecosystems: The Challenge of Integrating Water Policy and the Environment 8. The Disconnect between Water Law and Hydrology 9. Protecting the Supply: Arizona's Water Quality Challenges 10. Implications of Federal Farm Policy and State Regulation on Agricultural Water Use 11. Urban Growth and Water Supply 12. Water Supply and Management in Rural Arizona 13. Arizona's Recharge and Recovery Programs 14. Tribal Water Claims and Settlements within Regional Water Management 15. Lessons for Semiarid Regions Facing Growth and Competition for Water Index
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