The Multi-Watfore Method: A Water Demand Forecasting System
The multi-Watfore method, which combines the cascade model and a first order analysis of uncertainty, is a system of practical steps to develop models of water demand while generating...
Preliminary Report of the Feasibility of an Interbasin Water Transfer Through Existing Canal Systems
A preliminary feasibility study of the interbasin transport of water from the Sabine River on the Texas Louisiana border to the San Jacinto River Basin, northeast of Houston, Texas, using...
A Water Pricing Model for Lake Texana
Faced with water sales and recreation revenues insufficient to service the project debt, the Lavaca-Navidad River Authority (L-NRA), operators of Lake Texana, decided upon a novel approach...
Appropriate Cost Factors for System Reliability
This paper examines the development of appropriate costs to be associated with various levels of failure of water distribution networks and water supply systems. A clear distinction is...
The Development of Lake Granbury SWATS Regional Electrodialysis Reversal Demineralizer Treatment Plant
Due to high population growth and rapidly declining groundwater levels, the Brazos River Authority of Texas initiated a regional study to evaluate existing and potential surface water...
Developing a Wastewater Plan for an Urbanizing Area?The Case of Johnson County, Texas
Johnson County, Texas, is located south of Ft. Worth, Texas, and is influenced by the entire Dallas-Ft. Worth Metroplex, which has a population of more than 3 million people. In 1988 the...
Financing Water Supply and Wastewater Facilities in Low Income Areas
The Texas Water Development Fund was created by amendment to the Texas Constitution in 1957 as a reaction to the droughts of the 1950's. Subsequent amendments to the Texas...
The Spirit of Bandera?An Experiment in Inter-Agency Team-Building
An experiment to improve intergovernmental cooperation in water resources planning and management was initiated by the Southwestern Division, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, in 1988 at Bandera,...
Conservation and Water Supply Planning at Army Installations
The purpose of this paper is to summarize the research being conducted by the U.S. Army Institute for Water Resources in providing technical assistance to the Installation Planning Division,...
A Travel Time Template for Water Body Field Surveys
A LOTUS 1-2-3 spreadsheet application has been developed to help plan water body surveys. The template calculates travel times between sampling stations and outputs a time schedule for...
Using Corps of Engineers' Reservoirs for Water Supply
This paper provides an historical overview of the Corps of Engineers (COE) authority in the water supply arena and discusses the methodologies and procedures used to reallocate storage...
Managing Two Lakes with Significant Tailwater Fisheries
Norfork and Bull Shoals Dams on the White River in Arkansas were constructed in 1944 and 1951, respectively. The authorized purposes were for flood control, hydropower generation, and...
Simulation of a Surface Water Allocation System
This paper outlines the water rights system in Texas and a newly developed computer simulation program for modeling this system. In addition, an overview of a river basin simulation using...
History of Geographic Information Systems, with Applications in Water Resources Planning and Management
Elements of computerized spatial analysis have been used in water resources since the mid '60s, and sophisticated and complex systems incorporating geographic information...
GIS In Water Resources in the Year 2000
This paper presents a look at what the geographic information system (GIS) technology, as applied to water resources, may look like in the year 2000. It presents a description of what...
Ute Mountain Ute Indian Water Rights Settlement of 1988
The Ute Mountain Ute Tribe, located in the southwest corner of Colorado, agreed to a negotiated settlement of Winters Doctrine Water Rights rather than pursuing litigation. The Tribe will...
Administration of the Pecos River Compact Between New Mexico and Texas
The Pecos River Compact specifies the allocation of water between New Mexico and Texas. Due to difficulty in reaching agreement Texas sued New Mexico in the Supreme Court. The Court issued...
Water Rights, Water Development, & Growth Issues in Goleta, California
The Goleta Valley and Santa Barbara areas of southern California are highly desirable places to live. In the past, relatively uncontrolled growth of the Goleta Valley area led to a gradual...
Water Basins in the Middle East
In Middle Eastern factional scheming for power, water is viewed as a strategic resource. The distribution of surface waters constitutes the basis for water geopolitics, thus representing...
Water Development Ideology: A New Status Quo
The old ideology of economic growth used to justify water resource development is no longer popular in the Southwest. A new ideology is developing, based on new circumstances....
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