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From:Forum for Applied Research and Public Policy (Vol. 16, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIn "Western Groundwater Wars" (FORUM, Spring 2001), Jeffrey Ashley and Zachary Smith give an informed overview of the fragmented laws and policies regulating groundwater in the West. Groundwater is a fragile resource at...
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From:Ground Water (Vol. 38, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedStephen W. Wheatcraft [a] Abstract Travel time estimates for contaminant fronts or plumes are often obtained using estimates of average pore velocities from Darcy's law calculations. These estimates provide...
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From:NACLA Report on the Americas (Vol. 33, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedCOCHABAMBA--Following a week of massive popular protests against the privatization of Cochabamba's water system, the Bolivian government announced on April 10 that it would break the contract it signed last year that...
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From:Ground Water (Vol. 38, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedJames M. Thomas [a] W. Alan McKay [b] Erin Cole [c] James E. Landmeyer [d] Paul M. Bradley [d] Abstract The fate of disinfection byproducts during aquifer storage and recovery (ASR) is evaluated for...
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From:Alternatives Journal (Vol. 28, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIn early 2000, the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry in the province of KwaZulu Natal, South Africa, introduced cost recovery on water. Rural households that were accustomed to free potable water at communal...
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From:Journal of Environmental Health (Vol. 69, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedSince 1993, several wells have been found to be contaminated in Randolph Township, New Jersey. As a result, the local health department believed there was a need to develop an ordinance that would protect the health of...
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From:Ground Water (Vol. 33, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe quality of ground water in surficial unconsolidated aquifers in agricultural regions of Long Island, Connecticut, Kansas, Nebraska and the Delaware-Maryland-Virginia peninsula was examined based on data gathered...
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From:Ground Water (Vol. 38, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedF. Edwin Harvey [a] David L. Rudolph [b] Shaun K. Frape [b] Abstract Over the last two decades, there has been a growing recognition of the importance of evaluating ground water's contribution to lakes. As a...
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From:Journal of Soil and Water Conservation (Vol. 60, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe City of Fernley, Nevada is out of water. Population in the area has doubled in eight years, and development has caused city officials to take a strong stance on water in the area. The city council for example is...
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From:Urban Studies (Vol. 36, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedSummary. This paper examines the emergence of a new logic of water management in developing cities. We argue that water provision is characterised by two largely disconnected circuits of water supply. Formally organised...
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From:Ground Water (Vol. 38, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedAly I. El-Kadi [a] Stan A. Williams [b] Abstract This paper introduces a computer program that uses matrix decomposition to generate two-dimensional fields of normally or log-normally distributed parameters...
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From:Multinational Monitor (Vol. 28, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedA POLITICAL SHOPPING SPREE may have accelerated the efforts of Dallas billionaire T. Boone Pickens to hijack sweeping government powers of eminent domain. The tycoon wants these extraordinary powers to benefit his...
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From:The Social Science Journal (Vol. 38, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedOtis W. Templer is Professor of Geography at Texas Tech University. He holds a Ph.D. from U.C.L.A. and a J.D. from the University of Texas. His research over the past three decades has focused on water law and water...
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From:Ground Water (Vol. 38, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedSkelly A. Holmbeck-Pelhama [a] Todd C. Rasmussen [b] Laurie A. Fowler [c] Abstract Ground water tracer tests are routinely performed to estimate aquifer flow and transport properties, including the...
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From:Greener Management International (Issue 42) Peer-ReviewedSouthern Africa is littered with broken hand pumps that the users are ill equipped to repair. Providing a sustainable water supply to isolated rural populations neither begins nor ends with drilling a borehole and...
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From:Ground Water (Vol. 38, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedYi-Jang Yeh [a,b] Cheng-Haw Lee [a] Shih-Tsu Chen [a] Abstract Based on the column tracer test, we developed a research method to determine the hydraulic conductivity and effective porosity of saturated...
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From:Hydrocarbon Processing (Vol. 78, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedYou need not look hard within a process plant to find key technical and production personnel who overlook improvement opportunities within industrial water systems. This oversight is often rooted in the fact that the...
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From:Bulletin of the World Health Organization (Vol. 80, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe public health classic reproduced on the following pages is an extract from the first thorough study of water use in a developing country from the consumer's point of view. It was a seminal starting point for many of...
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From:Ground Water (Vol. 38, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedJohn B. Erdmann [a] Abstract A barrier well line's capture width along its alignment is shown to depend only on total system flow rate [Q.sub.T] and aquifer background flow rate per unit width [Q.sub.0]...
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From:Soil Research (Vol. 51, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedModelling soil water movement has increased the demand for accurate measurements of soil physical and hydraulic properties. Data on saturated hydraulic conductivity (K), which was measured by using different hydraulic...