Research Catalog

Title

Water in Australia : resources and management / David Ingle Smith.

Author

Smith, D. I. (David Ingle)

Publication

Melbourne ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1998.

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Details

Description

xxii, 384 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps; 25 cm

Summary

"Australia is the driest inhabited continent. It also has the most variable rainfall and runoff. This poses unique problems for the management of the nation's water resources. Water in Australia outlines the nature of the resource, past management practices, policy, and the outlook for the future. The opening chapter addresses the issue of how much water there is and where it is located. Subsequent chapters answer the following questions: Where is it? How usable is it? Does our pattern of floods and droughts mean we have too much, or too little? How did we get where we are now? How are we doing? Where are we going?"--Jacket.

Subject

• Water-supply > Australia
• Water quality management > Australia
• Water resources development > Australia
• Water conservation > Australia
• Water conservation
• Water quality management
• Water resources development
• Water-supply
• Ressourcenmanagement
• Wasserreserve
• Australia
• Australien

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 357-377) and index.

Contents

The resource base: how much and where is it? -- Water quality: how usable is it? -- Water use: who uses what, where, and how much? -- The history of water resource development: how we got where we are -- 'Of droughts and flooding rains': too much or too little -- Community, state of the environment, and economic rationalism: where we are now and how we are doing -- Water futures: where are we going?

ISBN

• 0195537041
• 9780195537048

LCCN

98199843

OCLC

• ocm64396769
• 64396769
• SCSB-574096

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library