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RECORD NUMBER: 1832 OF 1905Main Title | Water availability and use pilot : a multiscale assessment in the U.S. Great Lakes Basin / | ||||||||||||||||
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Author | Reeves, Howard W. | ||||||||||||||||
Publisher | U.S. Geological Survey, | ||||||||||||||||
Year Published | 2010 | ||||||||||||||||
OCLC Number | 660801969 | ||||||||||||||||
ISBN | 9781411329607; 1411329600 | ||||||||||||||||
Subjects | Streamflow--Great Lakes Region (North America) ; Groundwater--Great Lakes Region (North America) ; Water-supply--Great Lakes Region (North America) | ||||||||||||||||
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Collation | x, 105 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), col. maps ; 28 cm. | ||||||||||||||||
Notes | Includes bibliographical references (p. 94-102). |
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Contents Notes | Background and major issues -- Regional analysis -- Subregional analyses -- Lake Michigan Basin groundwater-flow model -- Estimation of streamflows -- Water withdrawals, return flows, and consumption -- Local analyses -- Groundwater/surface-water interaction -- Assessment of climate-change effects -- Assessment of uncertainty of flow, water-level, and base-flow reduction estimates -- Challenges and lessons learned -- Introduction -- Purpose and scope -- Previous studies -- Approach to the pilot -- Great lakes Basin water-availability issues -- Characteristics of the Great Lakes Basin -- Regional water availability analysis for the U.S. Great Lakes Basin -- Predevelopment conditions -- Stocks (storage) -- Flows and processes -- Postdevelopment conditions -- Surface-water diversions into and out of the Great Lakes Basin -- Regional water withdrawals and water use -- Regional water budgets through time -- Regional indicators -- Summary and importance of regional analysis -- Need for subregional and local analyses -- Subregional water-availability analysis within the U.S. Great Lakes Basin -- Groundwater -- Groundwater-flow model -- Groundwater budget -- Groundwater-availability summary indicators -- Groundwater-flow model and groundwater availability -- Surface water -- Water withdrawals and water use -- Local-scale water availability analysis within the U.S. Great Lakes Basin -- Inset groundwater-flow model integrating groundwater and surface-water availability -- Groundwater/surface-water interaction -- Response to climate change -- Monitoring and network analysis -- Example bootstrap analysis for surface-water monitoring network -- Example model-uncertainty analysis using the local groundwater-flow model -- Summary of pilot study -- Challenges for future water-availability studies. |