Water Resources

Water is one of the major global resource issues of the 1990s. This state-of-the-art reference offers water resource and environmental professionals international coverage of water quality management and environmental issues, including the environmental impact of water development. Featuring contributions by experts from ten different countries, this timely guide presents recent concepts and data on waterlogging and salinity, sedimentation, land use, reservoir-induced seismicity, fisheries, and aquatic weeds. Readers will also get information on social impacts, water quality modeling and monitoring, water reuse, and more.

Water Development and Environment.Land Use, Erosion, and Water Resources.Sedimentation.Waterlogging and Salinity.Groundwater and the Environment.Water-Quality Monitoring.Water-Quality Prediction and Management.Eutrophication.Wastewater Reuse.Inland Fisheries.Aquatic Weeds.Institutional Priciples for Sound Management of Water and Related Environmental Resources.Economic Mechanisms for Managing Water Resources: Pricing, Permits, and Markets.Social Impacts.Resettlement.