Browsing by Subject "Watersheds"

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    Property Rights, Political Power, and the Management of Ground and Surface Water
    (Western Political Science Association, 1997) Blomquist, William; Schlager, Edella
    Among the more popular contemporary recommendations for improved watershed use and protection is conjunctive use of surface and underground water resources. Conjunctive use involves the coordination of surface water supplies and storage with groundwater supplies and storage, for purposes of sustainable watershed use and enhanced watershed protection. Among the several potential benefits that have been promoted by advocates of greater conjunctive use are: improved security of usable water supplies, lessened exposure to extreme events such as droughts and floods, reduced reliance on costly and environmentally disruptive surface water impoundments and distribution systems, and enhanced protection of aquatic life and habitat.
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    View of reservoir and its being too close to the town, which may be contaminating the watershed [Oakland City]
    (Indiana State Board of Health, 1905-03)
    Fig. 3. Oakland City Reservoir, showing fence bounding area owned by the town; and also showing a likely source of pollution.
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    View of reservoir and pumping station, Oakland City
    (Indiana State Board of Health, 1905-03)
    Fig. 1. Oakland City Public Reservoir and Pumping Station.
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    Watershed Management from the Ground Up: Political Science and the Explanation of Regional Governance Arrangements
    (American Political Science Association, 1999) Blomquist, William; Schlager, Edella
    This paper responds to the meeting organizers' call to address the connection between political science and the challenges of problem solving in the 'real world,' and especially the relevance of political science knowledge to actual puzzles faced by policy makers. The context of the paper is water resources management in the western United States, which is both acutely 'real' and intensely political. "For at least the past 25 years (since the publication of the National Water Commission's final report, Water Policies for the Future) and perhaps longer, prescriptions of the water policy literature have centered upon two themes. Political scientists and public administration scholars have contributed to both themes, as they did to the commission study and report. The first theme is that 'the watershed' is the appropriate scale for organizing water resource management, because all water sources and uses within a watershed are interrelated. The second is that since watersheds are regions to which political jurisdictions almost never correspond, and watershed-scale decision making structures do not usually exist, they should be created. Watershed-scale decision making organizations would bring together all 'stakeholders' and produce integrated watershed management policies that can be implemented efficiently, preferably through some form of watershed authority.