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This study offers a method for estimating riparian water budgets from river point flow data to demonstrate how a water budget framework can guide strategic conservation planning. Groundwater and surface water exchange ...

As the American West faces increasing water demands and decreased access and flows due to the effects of climate change, increasing populations, and pollution it is more important than ever to examine governance structures ...

Atolls consist of ring-shaped structures of small islets of varying sizes that encircle a shallow central lagoon. Freshwater supply on atoll islands is very fragile, consisting exclusively of rainwater harvested from ...

Recent studies have concluded that stream reaches are not simply gaining or losing to groundwater but are best described as a mosaic of exchanges that contrast between flowpaths of varying lengths and directions which ...

Farmers are increasingly selling their water rights to growing municipalities and abandoning their farms (buy and dry). A loss of food production in the midst of a growing population is a recipe for food shortages. There ...

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Aquifer storage and recovery (ASR) is a process through which water is injected into an aquifer for storage and recovered for later use. As water demand worldwide increases there is a growing need to evaluate alternative ...

DHA City Karachi (DCK), a city designed for approximately one million people, is envisaged to become a satellite city to the second largest city in the world, Karachi, which has a population of 25 million. The upcoming ...

Water conflicts unfolding around the world present the need for accurate economic models of groundwater use which couple traditional producer theory with hydrological science. We present a static optimization problem of ...