Adventures in managing water : real-world engineering experiences /

Adventures in Managing Water: Real-World Engineering Experiences is a collection of essays that present the challenges of providing adequate, reliable, affordable, and clean water supplies to communities around the world. These stories, shared by engineers and other water management professionals, e...

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Main Author: Loucks, Pete (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Reston, Virginia : American Society of Civil Engineers, [2019]
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Summary:Adventures in Managing Water: Real-World Engineering Experiences is a collection of essays that present the challenges of providing adequate, reliable, affordable, and clean water supplies to communities around the world. These stories, shared by engineers and other water management professionals, express the trials, successes, lessons learned, and moments of enlightenment each professional faced while building institutions and creating water management policies in the United States and abroad. hese essays are a compilation of field experiences, which includes adventures faced when coping with droughts, floods, and pollution issues in Australia, China, Uzbekistan, and other countries. The challenges involved in establishing policies for Lake Baikal in Russia and the Great Lakes in North America, for example, demonstrate the similarities across international boundaries. Managing river flows and their allocations in the United States and abroad requires more than the physical laws of hydrology and hydraulics.
Item Description:Includes index.
Physical Description:xii, 222 pages ; color illustrations : 24 cm
ISBN:9780784415337
0784415331