Fereidoun Ghassemi

Inter-Basin Water Transfer (eBook, PDF)

Case Studies from Australia, United States, Canada, China and India

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Produktbeschreibung

Increasing demands for irrigation, domestic and industrial water have generated a massive growth world-wide in the number of large water infrastructure projects involving the transfer of water from basins considered to have surplus water to those where the demand for water has exceeded or is expected to exceed supplies. Using the experiences of projects in Australia, United States, Canada, China and India, this book examines case studies within the diverse geographical, climatic, economic, and policy regimes operating in these countries. It examines the water resources of Australia, the driest inhabited continent, and explores inter-basin water transfer projects in the United States, Canada, China and India, examining their benefits and impacts within these nations' contrasting economies and governance systems. This comprehensive and well-illustrated text will be of great interest to professionals and researchers in the fields of hydrology, water resources, and to those engaged in environmental science, policy and regulation.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Januar 2007
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511267246
• Artikelnr.: 38211737

Autorenporträt

Fereidoun Ghassemi is Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Resource and Environmental Studies, The Australian National University. He is a Fellow of the Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand and was recipient of the G. Burton Medal from the Hydrological Society of Canberra in 1995. Dr Ghassemi has more than 35 years of experience in various aspects of water resource research in Australia, France, Iran and Vietnam.
Ian White is Professor of Water Resources at the Centre for Resource and Environmental Studies, The Australian National University. He is a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union and the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering. Professor White was awarded a Centenary Medal for service to Australian society in environmental science and technology in 2003 and has twice (in 1994 and 1997) received the G. Burton Publication Medal from the Hydrological Society of Canberra. He has worked in water and land resources in Australia, the United States, Pacific small island nations, Vietnam, China and France.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword
Overview and scope
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
Part I. The Challenges: 1. World population and pressures on land, water and food resources
2. Issues in inter-basin water transfer
Part II. Inter-basin Water Transfer in Australia: 3. Land and water resources of Australia
4. The Snowy Mountains hydro-electric scheme
5. Inter-basin water transfer from coastal basins of New South Wales
6. The Bradfield and Reid Schemes in Queensland
7. Three schemes for flooding Lake Eyre
8. The Goldfields pipeline scheme of Western Australia
9. Supplying Perth, Western Australia with water: the Kimberley pipeline scheme
10. Other schemes in Australia
Part III. Inter-basin Water Transfer in Other Selected Countries: 11. Inter-basin water transfer in the United States of America
12. Inter-basin water transfer in Canada
13. Inter-basin water transfer in China
14. India: the National River-Linking Project
15. Inter-basin water transfer, successes, failures and the future
Part IV. Appendices: A. Some of the Australian pioneers of inter-basin water transfer
B. Construction timetable of the Snowy Mountains Hydro-electric Scheme
C. Details of diversion schemes from the Clarence River Basin
D. Chronological table of the most important events in the Goldfields Pipeline Scheme, Western Australia
E. Flooding of the Sahara depressions
F. The Ord River Irrigation Scheme
G. The West Kimberley Irrigation Scheme
H. Some other water transfer schemes in Australia
I. Selected technical features of the Central Valley Project in California
J. Selected technical features of the State Water Project in California
K. Selected characteristics of some of the completed or proposed inter-basin water transfer projects in Australia, United States, Canada, China and India, in chronological order
Glossary
Index.

Rezensionen

'This study is a 'must read' for anyone formulating water policy which may result in, or anyone studying or interested in, inter-basin transfers of water.' Brit Allan Storey, Senior Historian, US Bureau of Reclamation, Denver, Colorado