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Visions for water management -- Urban water use in context -- The governance of water supply and demand -- Water in the home : learning from the past -- Understanding water practices and mobilising change -- Water qualities -- Water out of place -- Flood risk governance -- Water in the landscape.

Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Dedication -- Foreword -- AISUWRS team members -- Summary -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Problems in urban groundwater resource management -- 1.2 The AISUWRS approach -- 2. The Models -- 2.1 Urban volume and quality (UVQ) -- 2.2 Network exfiltration and infiltration model (NEIMO) -- 2.3 Contaminant transport through the unsaturated zone: The SLeakI and POSI models -- 2.4 Simple approach for balancing transient unsaturated soil processes in urban areas by the analytical model UL_FLOW -- 2.5 Urban Groundwater Modelling -- 2.6 Integrating it all: The decision support system -- 3. Application to real world problems -- 3.1 A porous aquifer: Rastatt, germany -- 3.2 A sandstone aquifer: Doncaster, UK -- 3.3 A layered aquifer system: Ljubljana, Slovenia -- 3.4 A karstic aquifer system: Mount gambier, australia -- 4. Socio-Economics and Sustainability -- 4.1 Objectives, scope and approach -- 4.2 Guidelines for data collection and analysis - the SEESAW model -- 4.3 Executive summary of the model applications in the case study cities -- 5. AISUWRS Urban Water Resources Toolbox - A Brief Summary -- 6. References.

In the chapter's final section, Hunt enumerates the benefits conferred upon human and nonhuman beings by the water cycle and freshwater ecosystems, including recreation, domestic and industrial uses, waste removal, providing fish and wildlife habitat, etc.

1980 Spring. ; Includes bibliographic references (pages 48-49). ; A computerized streamflow model was developed that allocates water by the doctrine of prior appropriations. The function of the model is to simulate the impacts of physical or legal changes in a stream system managed on the basis of priority of water rights. Given a specified value of streamflow and a desired level of demand, the model predicts the amount of water available to individual users. The model has been applied to the White River in Colorado. Results indicate that the model is a useful tool in predicting streamflows and water availability for individual users.

Urban, demographic and climate trends are increasingly exposing cities to risks of having too little, too much and too polluted water. Facing these challenges requires robust public policies and sound governance frameworks to co-ordinate across multiple scales, authorities, and policy domains. Building on a survey of 48 cities in OECD countries and emerging economies, the report analyses key factors affecting urban water governance, discusses trends in allocating roles and responsibilities across levels of government, and assesses multi-level governance gaps in urban water management. It provides a framework for mitigating territorial and institutional fragmentation and raising the profile of water in the broader sustainable development agenda, focusing in particular on the contribution of metropolitan governance, rural-urban partnerships and stakeholder engagement

In both OECD and non-OECD countries the water sector is facing the challenges of increased competition for water resources, deteriorating water quality, and the effects of climate change and poor management. In this context, how can countries ensure access to adequate, sustainable and affordable water and sanitation services for all? Pricing water-related services is part of the answer. This report compiles data on pricing water and on water supply and sanitation services comparable across OECD countries. It sheds additional light on such policy issues as the choice of tariff structures for water services, cost recovery for water services and affordability.--Publisher's description

Divers suspected of suffering decompression illness (DCI) in locations remote from a recompression chamber are sometimes treated with in-water recompression (IWR). There are no data that establish the benefits of IWR compared to conventional first aid with surface oxygen and transport to the nearest chamber. However, the theoretical benefit of IWR is that it can be initiated with a very short delay to recompression after onset of manifestations of DCI. Retrospective analyses of the effect on outcome of increasing delay generally do not capture this very short delay achievable with IWR. However, in military training and experimental diving, delay to recompression is typically less than two hours and more than 90% of cases have complete resolution of manifestations during the first treatment, often within minutes of recompression. A major risk of IWR is that of an oxygen convulsion resulting in drowning. As a result, typical IWR oxygen-breathing protocols use shallower maximum depths (9 metres' sea water (msw), 191 kPa) and are shorter (1–3 hours) than standard recompression protocols for the initial treatment of DCI (e.g., US Navy Treatment Tables 5 and 6). There has been no experimentation with initial treatment of DCI at pressures less than 60 feet' sea water (fsw; 18 msw; 286 kPa*) a since the original development of these treatment tables, when no differences in outcomes were seen between maximum pressures of 33 fsw (203 kPa; 10 msw) and 60 fsw or deeper. These data and case series suggest that recompression treatment comprising pressures and durations similar to IWR protocols can be effective. The risk of IWR is not justified for treatment of mild symptoms likely to resolve spontaneously or for divers so functionally compromised that they would not be safe in the water. However, IWR conducted by properly trained and equipped divers may be justified for manifestations that are life or limb threatening where timely recompression is unavailable.

"[This book] provides both a general overview of basic water law doctrines and an exploration of how water law the law and policies governing allocation of water fits into broader ecological and environmental law issues. The book provides an overview of important hydrological principles before discussing the two state-law systems governing use of surface water in the United States and the five doctrines governing use of groundwater. It then explores the federal government's interests in the fresh waters of the United States, ranging from protection of navigability to federal water projects to federal water rights. Putting the law governing water use into a broader context, Water Law: Concepts & Insights then explores the intersections of state water law with energy policy and production, water quality protections, endangered species protections, and broader watershed management. It ends by returning to the concept of water rights as protected private property rights and the complexities of constitutional "takings" litigation when environmental protections interfere with those rights." -- Publisher's website

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Lakes as Sentinels for Current Climate Changes and Anthropogenic Pressure -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1 -- Multidisciplinary Research of Different Types of Boreal Lakes in North-West of Russia -- Abstract -- Introduction -- General Characteristics of Lakes -- Climatic Conditions of the Region: Analysis of Long-Term Trends -- Methods -- Main Research Results -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 2 -- Multidisciplinary Research of the Lake Kenozero (Northern Part of the Kenozersky National Park) in the Summer -- Abstract -- Physio-Geographical and Hydrological Parameters of the Lake -- Nutrients -- Iron -- Zooplankton -- Phytoplankton -- Bacterioplankton -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 3 -- Long-Term Study of the Ecosystem Components Variability of the Lake Lekshmozero (The Southern Part of the Kenozersky National Park) -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Morphometric and Hydrographic Characteristics of Lekshmozero -- Hydrological Regime -- Water Temperature -- Specific Conductivity (Mineralization) -- Dissolved Oxygen -- Hydrochemical Characteristic -- Dynamics of Main Nutrients in Lekshmozero -- Forms of Iron and Color -- Dissolved Organic and Inorganic Carbon Concentrations -- Zooplankton Community Composition -- Phytoplankton Community Composition -- Microbiological Characteristics -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 4 -- Fish Death in the Mesotrophic Lake Lekshmozero: Possible Causes -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Features of Lake Lekshmozero -- Analysis of the Situation -- Discussion and Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 5 -- Oligotrophic Lake Naglimozero during Seasonal Stratification -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Hydrographic and Morphometric Characteristics -- Hydrological Characteristics -- Water Temperature.