Title:
Revising U.S. State Water Allocation Laws
Revising U.S. State Water Allocation Laws
| dc.contributor.author | Draper, Stephen E. | |
| dc.contributor.corporatename | Draper Group | en_US |
| dc.contributor.editor | Hatcher, Kathryn J. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2010-03-08T21:35:57Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2010-03-08T21:35:57Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1993-04 | |
| dc.description | Proceedings of the 1993 Georgia Water Resources Conference, April 20-21, 1993, Athens, Georgia. | en |
| dc.description.abstract | Since 1950, surface water withdrawals in the fifty United States have increased over 129%. (USGS, 1990) In 1985, the fifty states withdrew almost 265,000 Million gallons per day (MGD) from surface waters, consuming almost 23% of the withdrawals. (Ibid.) In some areas of the country, surface waters in specific basins have been completely allocated and water must be imported from other basins to meet the increasing demands. The increase in water demand in Georgia has been greater than most other states. In 1985, Georgia users withdrew over 4300 MGD from surface waters, an increase of 165% over 1950 withdrawals. (Ibid.; Hodler, 1986) In the Atlanta Metropolitan Area alone it is estimated that by the year 2010 surface water withdrawals will have increased another 58% over the present water demand. (Stevens, 1991) The growing demand for use of a finite amount of water means that Georgia and other states must allocate their water resources efficiently to insure that water is available for reasonable and beneficial uses when and where it is needed. A new initiative by the American Society of Civil Engineers will help states structure their water allocation laws to achieve the objective of efficient water use. It is called a Model State Water Allocation Code. | en |
| dc.description.sponsorship | Sponsored and Organized by: U.S. Geological Survey, Georgia Department of Natural Resources, The University of Georgia, Georgia State University, Georgia Institute of Technology | en |
| dc.description.statementofresponsibility | This book was published by the Institute of Natural Resources, The University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602 with partial funding provided by the U.S. Department of Interior, Geological Survey, through the Georgia Water Research Institute as authorized by the Water Resources Research Act of 1984 (P.L. 98-242). The views and statements advanced in this publication are solely those of the authors and do not represent official views or policies of the University of Georgia or the U.S. Geological Survey or the conference sponsors. | |
| dc.identifier.isbn | 0-935835-03-2 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1853/32144 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en |
| dc.publisher | Georgia Institute of Technology | en |
| dc.publisher.original | Institute of Natural Resources | |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | GWRI1993. Georgia Lake Management Society | en |
| dc.subject | Water resources management | en |
| dc.subject | Water withdrawals | en |
| dc.subject | Water allocation | en |
| dc.title | Revising U.S. State Water Allocation Laws | en |
| dc.type | Text | |
| dc.type.genre | Proceedings | |
| dspace.entity.type | Publication | |
| local.contributor.corporatename | Georgia Water Resources Institute | |
| local.contributor.corporatename | School of Civil and Environmental Engineering | |
| local.contributor.corporatename | College of Engineering | |
| local.relation.ispartofseries | Georgia Water Resources Conference | |
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