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The Interior Department's Water 2025: Blueprint For Balance, Or Just Better Business As Usual?, Reed D. Benson
The Interior Department's Water 2025: Blueprint For Balance, Or Just Better Business As Usual?, Reed D. Benson
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The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation (USBR or the Bureau) observed its centennial in 2002, and celebrated 100 years of building dams and supplying water for irrigation and other purposes in the western United States. In 2003, the U.S. Department of the Interior (the Interior) and the Bureau shifted their focus to the future of the West and its water supply needs, producing a document called Water 2025: Preventing Crises and Conflict in the West.
Improving New Mexico's Water Management, Denise D. Fort, Tom Mcguckin
Improving New Mexico's Water Management, Denise D. Fort, Tom Mcguckin
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This paper reviews several measures that New Mexico should pursue to improve its management of water. The crisis in New Mexico’s water affects all of the citizens of the state, but hasty responses may promise more than they can deliver. In this paper we present several measures that will allow better use of the resources that the state has, and rectify imbalances in how water has been managed in the state.
Superfund Vs. Mega-Sites: The Coeur D'Alene River Basin Story, Clifford J. Villa
Superfund Vs. Mega-Sites: The Coeur D'Alene River Basin Story, Clifford J. Villa
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Stretching across the "panhandle" of northern Idaho, the Coeur d'Alene River Basin evokes a mixed sense of wonder. Within this vast region of mountains and marshes, forests and farmland, creeks and canyons, a vibrant mining industry emerged more than a century ago. Along with the mining industry came the mining towns-and the mining pollution. Over time, the volume of mining wastes discharged into waters of the Coeur d'Alene Basin reached Brobdingnagian proportions: enough waste to fill a football field with a pile four miles high.