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INTERBASIN TRANSFERS: DO WE NEED THEM?'
Author(s) -
Howe Charles W.
Publication year - 1971
Publication title -
jawra journal of the american water resources association
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.957
H-Index - 105
eISSN - 1752-1688
pISSN - 1093-474X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1752-1688.1971.tb04977.x
Subject(s) - dispersion (optics) , agriculture , population , scale (ratio) , displacement (psychology) , natural resource economics , environmental science , water resource management , water supply , hydrology (agriculture) , economics , agricultural economics , business , geography , geology , environmental engineering , geotechnical engineering , physics , archaeology , cartography , psychology , sociology , optics , psychotherapist , demography
Three main issues are discussed: the demands for additional water stemming from population dispersion; supply alternatives to large‐scale interbasin transfers; and the displacement of agriculture from nonprofit regions. It is concluded that population dispersion is unlikely to increase aggregate water demands; that large additional supplies are available from other sources at lesser costs; and that a very likely consequence of large‐scale transfers will be the displacement of agriculture in other parts of the country.