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Which Lake is the World's Largest? Caspian Sea or Lake Baikal?

Posted By Kaveh in Miscellaneous

There are a few different ways to define the world's largest lake. Are we interested in the lake with the largest surface area? Or, the lake with the greatest water volume? And, should we consider the salt water seas in our comparison?

"Which lake is the World's largest?" is not a simple question to answer. So, let's explore all of these questions and you will then have all of the ma http://geology.com -
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WaterWired: 'The Economist' Looks At Water Wars: What, No Ground Water?

Posted By Josue in Planning and Management

The current (3 May 2008) issue of The Economist contains a piece on 'Streams of blood, or streams of peace', about the potential for nations going to war over water. It's a good article, examining a number of river basins around the world with the potential for conflict. http://aquadoc.typepad.com -
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Blue Gold : World Water Wars

Posted By Kaveh in Planning and Management

Feature documentary based on the groundbreaking book. It's not about saving the environment. It's about saving ourselves. http://youtube.com -
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DWR Releases Integrated Water Resources Information System

Posted By Christina in Planning and Management

SACRAMENTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Department of Water Resources (DWR) has released a new water resources data management tool called the Integrated Water Resources Information System (IWRIS).

IWRIS is a Web-based Geographic Information System application that allows users to access, integrate, query, and visualize multiple sets of data from diverse sources.

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Integrated Water Resources Management: A Reassessment

Posted By kevinthemann in Planning and Management

The concept of integrated water resources management (IWRM) has been around for some 60 years. It was rediscovered by some in the 1990s. While at a first glance, the concept of IWRM looks attractive, a deeper analysis brings out many problems, both in concept and implementation, especially for meso- to macro-scale projects. The definition of IWRM continues to be amorphous, and there is no agreeme http://www.geog.ox.ac.uk -
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Global distribution of world's water

Posted By Kaveh in Hydrology

This image shows the distribution of world's water resources. http://www.unep.org -
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Water As Precious Resource

Posted By goopsgoops in Miscellaneous

People used to think about water as an infinite resource. They could use it, abuse it, pollute it and sink their garbage into it with impunity, it would never run dry and would somehow clean itself of sewage and chemicals and industrial waste. This short-sighted view of life's most precious and necessary resource justified the great post-war “turf boom” expansion of the population into designed s http://www.wiselivingjournal.com -
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Some cities rebel against water restrictions

Posted By WaterJoe in Planning and Management

Some local utility managers are revolting against the South Florida Water Management District' plans for stringent year-round restrictions, suggesting they won't enforce them http://www.palmbeachpost.com -
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Hydropower on the Nu: one river, many perspectives

Posted By rivluv in Planning and Management

A cascade of proposed hydroelectric projects on one of Asia's longest undammed rivers has caused great controversy in southwest China. Kristen McDonald reports from the Upper Nu River. http://www.chinadialogue.net -
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