Harvesting Alternative Water Resources (U.S. West)

• 主要作者: RANDLE, Sayd
• 格式: text
• 語言: English
• 出版: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2019
• 主題: semi-arid region; water infrastructure; freshwater resources; population growth; environmental stresses; water demands; wastewater; stormwater; saltwater; potential solution; regulatory challenges; governance; political challenges; infrastructural challenges; cultural challenges; reworking laws; institutions; and norms; resistance; safety; environmental impacts; cost; water provision; Demography, Population, and Ecology; Environmental Sciences
• 在線閱讀: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/cis_research/116; https://doi.org/10.1093/OBO/9780199830060-0215
• 機構: Singapore Management University

Since the mid-20th century, the western half of the United States has been known worldwide as a landscape marked by extraordinary water infrastructure. The semi-arid region’s enormous network of dams, reservoirs, and pipelines distributes its freshwater resources among an ever-growing population of...