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963291
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b717661
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Investigating groundwater systems on regional and national scales /\ Committee on U.S.G.S. Water Resources Research, Water Science and Technology Board, Commission on Geosciences, Environment and Resources, National Research Council.
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Washington, D.C. ;[Great Britain] :: National Academy Press,, ©2000.
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1 online resource (xiv, 143 pages) :: illustrations
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0309569761
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: 9780309569767
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0309071828
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9780309071826
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"Support for this project was provided by the U.S. Geological Survey under Contract No. 98HQAG2028"--Title page verso.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 116-132).
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| Contents
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""Investigating Groundwater Systems on Regional and National Scales""; ""Copyright""; ""Preface""; ""Contents""; ""Executive Summary""; ""1 Groundwater and Society ""; ""A CRITICAL RESOURCE""; ""Drinking and Irrigation Water""; ""Streamflow and Ecosystems""; ""A THREATENED RESOURCE""; ""AN OVERDEVELOPED RESOURCE""; ""Regional Subsidence""; ""Salt-Water Intrusion""; ""Resource Depletion""; ""THE NECESSITY FOR CONJUNCTIVE MANAGEMENT""; ""CONCLUSIONS""; ""2 Approaches to Synthesis of Groundwater Issues at the Regional Scale ""; ""USGS GROUNDWATER PROGRAMS�PAST AND PRESENT""
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""3 Institutional Integration and Collaboration """"EXTERNAL COLLABORATION""; ""Rationale and Benefits""; ""Conditions for and Obstacles to Collaboration""; ""INTERNAL COLLABORATION""; ""Federal-State Cooperative Water Program""; ""National Water-Quality Assessment Program""; ""Toxic Substances Hydrology Program""; ""CONCLUSIONS""; ""4 Scientific Issues ""; ""AQUIFER MANAGEMENT""; ""Scientific and Management Issues""; ""USGS Roles in Aquifer Management""; ""NATURAL GROUNDWATER RECHARGE""; ""Scientific and Management Issues""; ""USGS Roles in Groundwater Recharge""
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""GROUNDWATER QUALITY AND MOVEMENT IN SURFICIAL MATERIALS""""Scientific and Management Issues""; ""USGS Roles in Surficial Material Hydrogeology""; ""GROUNDWATER-SURFACE WATER INTERACTIONS""; ""Scientific and Management Issues""; ""USGS Roles in Groundwater-Surface Water Interactions""; ""GROUNDWATER IN KARST AND FRACTURED AQUIFERS""; ""Scientific and Management Issues""; ""USGS Roles in Karst and Fractured-Rock Studies""; ""CHARACTERIZATION OF SUBSURFACE HETEROGENEITY""; ""Scientific and Management Issues""; ""USGS Roles in Characterization of Subsurface Heterogeneity""
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""NUMERICAL MODELING""""Scientific and Management Issues""; ""USGS Roles in Numerical Modeling""; ""FACILITATING USE OF GROUNDWATER INFORMATION IN DECISION-MAKING""; ""Quantifying and Reducing Uncertainty in Predictions""; ""Scaling Available Information to the Regional Level""; ""Developing Decision-Making and Risk Models for Groundwater Use""; ""CONCLUSIONS""; ""5 Delivery and Accessibility of Groundwater Data ""; ""USERS OF GROUNDWATER DATA""; ""CONTENT OF GROUNDWATER DATA""; ""FORMAT OF GROUNDWATER DATA""; ""Web-Based Data Sets on a National Scale""
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""The Changing Arena of Hydrogeology""""Regional Aquifer-System Analysis (RASA) Program""; ""National Water-Quality Assessment Program""; ""Groundwater Monitoring Networks""; ""Other Current USGS Programs""; ""Ground-Water Resources Program""; ""NEW OPPORTUNITIES AND MANDATES""; ""An Emphasis on Sustainability""; ""Alternative Meanings of “Regional�""; ""PROPOSED FRAMEWORK FOR REGIONAL-SCALE GROUNDWATER STUDIES""; ""Regional Groundwater Assessment""; ""Regional Groundwater Science""; ""Example: Middle Rio Grande""; ""Regionalization""; ""CONCLUSIONS""
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Groundwater-- United States.
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Hydrogeology-- United States.
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Water resources development.
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Groundwater.
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Hydrogeology.
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NATURE-- Natural Resources.
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NATURE-- Rocks Minerals.
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Water resources development.
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United States.
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| Dewey Classification
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553.790973
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GB1015.I58 2000eb
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National Research Council (U.S.)., Committee on U.S. Geological Survey Water Resources Research.
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