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Capping Water Extractions: A Key Strategy for a Water‐Secure Future
Author(s) -
Richter Brian
Publication year - 2014
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 - 10.5942/jawwa.2014.106.0102
Subject(s) - hydrology (agriculture) , water resources , key (lock) , capital (architecture) , volume (thermodynamics) , water resource management , water flow , limit (mathematics) , environmental science , water use , geography , geology , environmental engineering , geotechnical engineering , computer science , mathematics , archaeology , physics , computer security , ecology , mathematical analysis , quantum mechanics , biology
In 1997 a ministerial council representing four Australian states and the capital territory took a remarkably bold step: The council instituted a firm limit on the total volume of water that could be extracted from the Murray‐Darling River basin. “The Cap,” as it became known, froze water use at a level equal to ~ 40% of the average annual volume of river flow.