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Principles of Water Resources: History, Development, Management, and Policy | Thomas V. Cech, University of Northern Colorado
Resource type: Book/Magazine - Higher Education - Curriculum - Course/Workshop
Topics: Water - Wetlands - Environmental Studies - Natural Sciences
Principles of Water Resources presents a long-awaited comprehensive look at our most precious resource. With its broad coverage of the history of water availability and use as well as government development, management and policy of water usage, this text is ideal for students of geography, biology, environmental studies, urban planning, geology, environmental engineering, soils and range sciences, watershed science, public administration, fisheries and wildlife, forestry resources, hydrology, natural resources, and ecology. The author has enlivened the text with interesting sidebars, policy issues, and closer looks at past and present examples of water use.
Table of Contents:
1. A historical perspective of water use and development
2. The Hydrologic Cycle: climate and weather
3. Surface water hydrology
4. Ground water hydrology
5. Municipal & irrigation water development
6. Dams
7. Water allocation law
8. Federal water agencies
9. Local, regional, state, and multi-state water management agencies
10.Water quality
11. Drinking water & wastewater treatment
12. Water and the environment
13. Water wars
14. Water and our future
If you are an instructor, you may request an Evaluation Copy of this textbook. Go to http://www.wiley.com/cda/product/0,,0471438618,00.html to purchase the textbook or to receive an evaluation copy.
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