America’s Water Crises: The Impact of Drought and Climate Change

ISBN-13: 9783031273797 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 365 str.

David McNabb; Carl Swenson

Opis

This book is focused exclusively on water problems in the 48 U.S. states. The authors provide an accessible overview of the work of many federal, state and academic researchers and water system administrators whose investigations have focused on the state of water and the water crisis now accelerating in the United States. David McNabb and Carl Swenson seek to bring to a wider audience some of the current research findings and data on the perilous state of the United States’ surface and groundwater resources during this time of climate change and the extreme drought taking place in many sections of the nation. Descriptions of the water resource systems are based on research and the subsequent findings published by water scientists in the United States Geological Survey, the Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Corps of Engineers and water related agencies of the Departments of Agriculture and of the Interior and state and local water management agencies.

Spis treści

Part 1: The Water World.- Chapter 1. Water, America’s Most Valuable Natural Resource.- Chapter 2. A Warm, Wet, Crowded World.- Chapter 3. The Nature of a Water Crisis.- Part 2: Shape of the Water Resource.- Chapter 4. Drought’s Role in a Water Crisis.- Chapter 5. Surface Water: The Fading Everyday Resource.- Chapter 6. Groundwater: The Disappearing Buried Resource.- Chapter 7. Stored Water: Human and Nature Storage Dam Crises.- Chapter 8. Repairing Infrastructure and Reusing Water.- Part 3: Regional Problems and Solutions.- Chapter 9. Water Crises in the West.- Chapter 10. Water Crises in the Southwest.- Chapter 11. Water Crises in the High Plains Region.- Chapter 12. Water Crises in the Great Lakes Region.- Chapter 13. Water Crises in the South Region.- Chapter 14. Water Crises in the Appalachian Mountains Region.- Chapter 15. Water Crises in the Mid-Atlantic Region.- Chapter 16. Water Crises in the Northeast Region.

O autorze

David E. McNabb is Professor Emeritus and adjunct professor at Pacific Lutheran University, USA. He is an elected water and wastewater district commissioner for Hartstene Pointe Water and Sewer District. His previous works include A Comparative History of Commerce and Industry: Cultural, Social and Economic Perspectives in Britain, Germany, Japan and the United States (2015) and Energy Policy in the U.S. (2011).

Carl R. Swenson has 35 years’ experience managing cities in Arizona, Illinois and Washington. He is a Credentialed City/County Manager (retired) and is recognised as Legacy Leader in the field of public management by the International City/County Management Association. His previous works co-authored with David McNabb include Collaboration in Government: Forms and Practices (2022) and Disaster Management Policies and Practices (2023).

Blurb

This book is focused exclusively on water problems in the 48 U.S. states. The authors provide an accessible overview of the work of many federal, state and academic researchers and water system administrators whose investigations have focused on the state of water and the water crisis now accelerating in the United States. David McNabb and Carl Swenson seek to bring to a wider audience some of the current research findings and data on the perilous state of the United States’ surface and groundwater resources during this time of climate change and the extreme drought taking place in many sections of the nation. Descriptions of the water resource systems are based on research and the subsequent findings published by water scientists in the United States Geological Survey, the Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Corps of Engineers and water related agencies of the Departments of Agriculture and of the Interior and state and local water management agencies.

David E. McNabb is Professor Emeritus and adjunct professor at Pacific Lutheran University, USA. He is an elected water and wastewater district commissioner for Hartstene Pointe Water and Sewer District. His previous works include A Comparative History of Commerce and Industry: Cultural, Social and Economic Perspectives in Britain, Germany, Japan and the United States (2015) and Energy Policy in the U.S. (2011).

Carl R. Swenson has 35 years’ experience managing cities in Arizona, Illinois and Washington. He is a Credentialed City/County Manager (retired) and is recognised as Legacy Leader in the field of public management by the International City/County Management Association. His previous works co-authored with David McNabb include Collaboration in Government: Forms and Practices (2022) and Disaster Management Policies and Practices (2023)