Agricultural production in the semi-arid western United States is dependent on irrigation. Population in the seventeen western states has been and is expected to continue increasing. Groundwater levels are declining throughout the region with long-term pumping and increased demands leading to greater pumping lifts and costs, land subsidence, and salt water intrusion into groundwater basins. Construction and operation costs of future water development in these states will be great, both in dollars and in economic and social effects. Competition for the available water supply due to increased demands in both agricultural and non-agricultural sectors continues to increase. Although considerable attention has been given to some aspects of declining water supplies for irrigated agriculture in particular areas, this is the first volume to adress in a comprehensive manner the effects of scarce water supplies on agricultural production and the resultant impacts at regional, state, national, and international levels. Over seventy experts, representing all the major physical and social sciences as well as industries examine the issues and conclude that important decisions must be made at all levels of government and private enterprise if the prosperity and quality of life in the region are to be maintained. Specific technical, economic, institutional, and managerial solutions are recommended to forestall an impending water crisis. All segments of society--agriculturalists, urbanites, food processors, land developers, environmentalists, and others--have major stakes in the outcome of any action for future water supplies and distribution in the West. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1984.

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University of California Press

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2023

Print ISBN

9780520357433

eBook ISBN

9780520310926

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Topic

Sciences biologiques

Subtopic

Écologie

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PREFACE
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
CONTENTS 1
Introduction NO SIMPLE SOLUTIONS by Ann F. Scheuring, Ernest A. Engelbert, and Robert M. Hagan
Chapter 1 PHYSICAL LIMITATIONS OF WATER RESOURCES by John Bredehoeft
Chapter 2 LEGAL-INSTITUTIONAL LIMITATIONS ON WATER USE by Gary Weatherford and Helen Ingram
Chapter 3 COMPETITION FOR WATER by Kenneth D. Frederick and Allen V. Kneese
Chapter 4 DEVELOPING NEW WATER SUPPLIES by Harvey O. Banks, Jean O. Williams, and Joe B. Harris
Chapter 5 INCREASING EFFICIENCY OF NONAGRICULTURAL WATER USE by J. Ernest Flack
Chapter 6 COPING WITH SALINITY by Jan van Schilfgaarde and J.D. Rhoades
Chapter 7 IMPROVING CROP MANAGEMENT by Ronald D. Lacewell and Glenn S. Collins
Chapter 8 IMPROVING LAND AND WATER USE PRACTICES by Norman J. Rosenberg
Chapter 9 IMPROVING IRRIGATION SYSTEMS† by Marvin E. Jensen
Chapter 10 LOCAL AND REGIONAL ECONOMIC IMPACTS by Robert A Young ***
Chapter 11 NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL COMMODITY PRICE IMPACTS by Earl O. Heady
Chapter 12 IMPACTS UPON BUSINESS COMMUNITIES by Vernon M. Crowder
Chapter 13 SOCIAL IMPACTS ON RURAL COMMUNITIES by Albert Schaffer and Ruth C. Schaffer
Chapter 14 SOCIAL IMPACTS UPON URBAN COMMUNITIES by Lay James Gibson
Chapter 15 ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS by B.A. Stewart and Wyatte Harman
Chapter 16 WHAT FARMERS CAN DO FOR THEMSELVES by Cecil Miller, Jr. and Bartley P. Cardon
Chapter 17 WHAT FINANCIAL AND BUSINESS INTERESTS CAN DO by A.L. Black
Chapter 18 WATER RIGHTS AND MARKET TRANSFERS12 by F. Lee Brown and Charles T. DuMars
Chapter 19 ONE STATE’S STRATEGY FOR PUTTING WATER TO BENEFICIAL USE by Ted Schwinden
Chapter 20 FEDERAL WATER POLICIES AND IRRIGATED AGRICULTURE by Garrey E. Carruthers, Thomas G. Bahr, Herbert H. Fullerton, and Norman H. Starler
Chapter 21 PROBLEMS, FINDINGS, AND ISSUES by Gilbert F. White
CONTRIBUTORS
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