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Category : Ouachita River Watershed (Ark. and La.)
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Drainage Basin Committees' Reports for the Red and Ouachita Basins
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Category : Ouachita River Watershed (Ark. and La.)
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Drainage Basin Committees' Reports for the Arkansas, Upper White, and St. Francis Basins
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Category : Arkansas River Watershed
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Drainage Basin Committees' Reports for the Lower Mississippi Basins
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Category : Mississippi River Watershed
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Drainage Basin Committees' Reports
Author: United States. National Resources Committee. Water Resources CommitteePublisher:
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Category : Rivers
Languages : en
Pages : 876
Book Description
Southern Waters
Author: Craig E. ColtenPublisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807156515
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
Water has dominated images of the South throughout history, from Hernando de Soto's 1541 crossing of the Mississippi to tragic scenes of flooding throughout the Gulf South after Hurricane Katrina. But these images tell only half the story: as urban, industrial, and population growth create unprecedented demands on water in the South, the problems of pollution and water shortages grow ever more urgent. In Southern Waters: The Limits to Abundance, Craig E. Colten addresses how the South -- in an environment fraught with uncertainty -- can navigate the twin risks of too much water and not enough. From the arrival of the first European settlers, the South's inhabitants have pursued a course of maximum exploitation and control of the area's plentiful waters, investing widely in wetland drainage and massive flood-control projects. Disputes over southern waterways go back nearly as far: obstruction of fish migration by mill dams prompted new policies to protect aquatic life as early as the colonial era. Colten argues that such conflicts, which have heightened dramatically since the explosive urbanization of the mid-twentieth century, will only become more frequent and intense, making the shift toward sustainable use a national imperative. In tracing the evolving uses and abuses of southern waters, Colten offers crucial insights into the complex historical geography of water throughout the region. A masterful analysis of the ways in which past generations harnessed and consumed water, Southern Waters also stands as a guide to adapting our water usage to cope with the looming shortage of this once-abundant resource.
Report of the Mississippi Valley Committee of the Public Works Administration
Author: United States. Public Works Administration. Mississippi Valley CommitteePublisher:
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Category : Floods
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Monthly Catalog, United States Public Documents
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 988
Book Description
Monthly Catalog, United States Public Documents
Author: United States. Superintendent of DocumentsPublisher:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1876
Book Description
February issue includes Appendix entitled Directory of United States Government periodicals and subscription publications; September issue includes List of depository libraries; June and December issues include semiannual index
Drainage Basin Committees' Reports
Author: United States. National Resources Committee. Water Resources CommitteePublisher:
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Category : Drainage
Languages : en
Pages : 886
Book Description
Drainage Basin Committees' Reports for the Upper Mississippi Basins
Author: United States. Water Resources CommitteePublisher:
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Category : Minnesota River
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description