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Meeting Future Water Requirements Through Reallocation
Author(s) -
Flack J. Ernest
Publication year - 1967
Publication title -
journal ‐ american water works association
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.466
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1551-8833
pISSN - 0003-150X
DOI - 10.1002/j.1551-8833.1967.tb03463.x
Subject(s) - scope (computer science) , agriculture , business , natural resource economics , water resource management , environmental economics , environmental science , economics , computer science , geography , archaeology , programming language
Expanding water requirements for agricultural, municipal, and industrial uses in the U.S. have been met largely by developing surplus water. Reallocation of water, however, is becoming increasingly necessary, as readily available sources are depleted and surplus water becomes more expensive to develop. This article discusses the scope of the water problem in the U.S., and examines reallocation as a method of solving this problem.