Evaluation Procedures for Hydrologic Safety of Dams
Procedures are proposed for selecting the safety design flood for both new and existing dams. The procedures are based on a quantitative risk assessment in which the likelihood and consequences...
A Summary Description of Design Criteria, Codes, Standards, and Regulatory Provisions Typically Used for the Civil and Structural Design of Nuclear Fuel Cycle Facilities
A summary of design criteria, codes, standards, and regulatory provisions applicable to the civil and structural design of the eight principal facilities of the nuclear fuel cycle are...
Soil Properties Evaluation from Centrifugal Models and Field Performance
The performance of geotechnical projects is dependent upon the appropriateness of the design theory to the boundary conditions, and the characterization of the soil properties used in...
Oklahoma Southwest Cooperative Program?An Update
In an effort to meet present and future regional water needs, the Oklahoma Water Resources Board and the Texas Water Commission (TWC), the Oklahoma effort has addressed three basic components:...
Needed Social, Cultural and Design Changes to Successfully Manage Nigerian Surface Irrigated Projects
The aim of this paper is to illustrate the broad nature of problems associated with the faulty initial designs of water distribution network and irrigation methods and poor participartion...
Groundwater, Technology, and Society
Water management is a multi-dimensional process. Its measures are technology, institutions and society's desires. For a management strategy to be implementable, it must accommodate...
The Economic Feasibility of Using Ethanol to Accelerate Groundwater Denitrification
A substantial buildup of nitrate in the groundwater of the eastern Sandhills region of Nebraska is projected by some planners. A groundwater carbon source such as ethanol promotes denitrification,...
A Method for `Warped Surface' Land Forming Design
Most approaches to land forming are based on a plane surface design which in some cases may result in prohibitive costs or excessive removal of top soil....
Economic Analysis of Canal Animal Protection Measures
Justification of canal animal protection measures has been, to a degree, driven by environmental and social constraints and as a result, large expenditures of funds to protect ungulates...
Random Characteristics of Sediment-Laden Flows and the Techniques of Effective Sediment Exclusion on Dujiangyan Irrigation Project in China
The irrigation system is over 2,200 years old and discharges water at a rate of 340-740 m3/s from the Minjiang River. The average slope of the river...
Economic Evaluation of Treatment Alternatives for Nitrate-Contaminated Water Supplies
This paper discusses the economic feasibility of removing nitrates from water supplies. Potential nitrate treatment methods include ion exchange, reverse osmosis, bio-denitrification,...
Bulk Stomatal Resistance in Operational Estimates of Evapotranspiration
General relationships for estimating canopy or bulk stomatal resistance and aerodynamic resistances of grass and alfalfa reference crops for use in the Penman-J.L. Monteith equation are...
The Social Sciences and Water Resources Management
With support from the National Science Foundation, a committee of 15 persons met in Washington, D.C. in 1985 to begin the process of assessing the past and future role of the social and...
Social Science, Engineering and Water Resources Management: A Perspective
This paper shares a framework or context for professional activities of social scientists in water resources management. It emphasizes the positive opportunities for helping and not simply...
Obstacles to the Use of Social Science Analysis in Water Decision-Making, or Where's the Demand for Social Science Input?
The paper identifies characteristics of both the public decisionmaking process and the methods of social science research that result in social science inputs having little influence on...
Ideology: A Worried Analysis
The paper makes the point that social, cultural and psychological variables, that is, variables of the behavioral sciences, are meaningful to the field of natural resource management....
How Far along the Learning Curve is the Contingent Valuation Method?
The paper discusses an application of the learning curve concept to new benefit methodologies and applies the model to the contingent valuation (CV) methodology. As knowledge accumulates...
Economics, Economists, and Water Policy Advising
Subjects covered include the effectiveness of economic analysis, the economist as technician and as policy entrepreneur, and others. Economic concepts and studies can be used as a means...
Water Resources Management and Structural Change in Rural Australia
Water policies in Australia are undergoing fundamental change marked by a switch in emphasis from development of further sources of water to management of available supplies. Quite apart...
Water Rights Issues
The paper focuses primarily on the fragmented legal rights to water in the hydrologic cycle, with conjunctive use and management of interconnected water resources and with some conflicting...
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