Toward a sustainable water future : visions for 2050 /
Toward a Sustainable Water Future: Visions for 2050 showcases the opinions of more than 50 experts who draw an optimistic picture of environmental and water resource conditions and issues midway through the 21st century. These authorities distinguished professionals in environmental and water resour...
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Reston, Va. :
American Society of Civil Engineers,
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword / Olcay Ünver
- Foreword / William J. Cosgrove
- Preface
- I : INTRODUCTION: Background
- Looking into the next 40 years
- 40 years ago
- Stressors influencing our future visions
- II : PLANNING AND POLICY: Water management in 2050 / Uri Shamir, Charles D.D. Howard
- Transboundary water sharing : confronting the challenge of growing water scarcity / Stephen E. Draper
- Sanitation and hygiene for all by 2050 / Roberto Lenton, Jon Lane
- Integrated water management in 2050 : institutional and governance challenges / Neil S. Grigg
- River basin planning and management in 2050 / Alan H. Vicory, Peter A. Tennant
- The law applicable to surface waters in 2050 / Joseph W. Dellapenna
- A vision of unified river basin planning and management / Charles W. Howe
- Water resources policy : foundation, evolution, and future / Warren Viessman, Elizabeth M. Perez
- Water utilities recognizing and adapting to a 2050 climate / Patricia Mulroy
- Water 2050 : attributes of sustainable water supply development / Edward G. Means III
- Flood risk management in 2050 / Gerald Galloway
- Adaptation to climate change in coastal cities, 2050 / David C. Major
- Agriculture water resource issues in 2050 / Michael F. Walter
- A vision for urban stormwater management in 2050 / James P. Heaney, John J. Sansalone
- A vision for urban water and wastewater management in 2050 / Glen T. Daigger
- Water resources and sustainable aquatic ecosystems : a vision for 2050 / N. LeRoy Poff, Brian D. Richter.
- III : EDUCATION: Facing the challenges in educational, technological and social change leading to 2050 / Jeff R. Wright
- A vision of interdisciplinary graduate education in water and environmental resources in 2050 / Laurel Saito [and others]
- Two big issues for water resources systems : advances in educational technology and changes in valuation / Jared L. Cohon
- IV : SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY: The science, information, and engineering needed to manage water availability and quality in 2050 / Robert M. Hirsch
- Hydrologic modeling in 2050 : knowledge requirements in a multi-nonstationary environment / Richard H. McCuen
- Hydroelectric power and the future / Charles D.D. Howard, Jery R. Stedinger
- Water distribution systems in 2050 / Walter M. Grayman, Mark W. LeChevallier, Tom Walski
- Sensing for improved water infrastructure management in 2050 / David A. Dzombak [and others]
- Visions of green technologies in 2050 for municipal resource management / Scott D. Struck
- Irrigation in 2050 / Marshall J. English
- Groundwater hhydrology in 2050 / George F. Pinder
- GIS for water resources 2050 / Robert M. Wallace
- Information technology in 2050 / A. Charles Rowney, Theodore G. Cleveland, James G. Gerth
- Creativity : an important problem-solving tool for water resources in 2050 / Richard H. McCuen
- Reflections from a water resources modeler and planner in 2050 / William Werick
- Future prospects for water management and adaptation to change / Eugene Z. Stakhiv
- Water resource management modeling in 2050 / Daniel P. Loucks
- Hydromorphologic scientific and engineering challenges for 2050 / Richard M. Vogel
- Dendrohydrology in 2050 : challenges and opportunities / Franco Biondi, Scotty Strachan
- V : CONCLUSIONS: Our collective vision.