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    crisis during those years, where the governor of California declared a state of emergency and urban Californians were mandated to find ways to cut their water consumption drastically . In 2012, 10,000 avian mortalities were reported in the Klamath Basin National Wildlife Refuges because of the shut off of water facilities that support wetland habitat for migratory species (Learn 2012.) During those dry years, an article titled Birds are Dying As Drought Ravages Avian Highways ran in National Geographic

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    area of the environmental regulation that relates closely to my proposed research is The Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972 (CZMA). The CZMA was initiated as an act to preserve, protect, and restore, the resources of the Nation's coastal zone for future generations. This correlates with the restoration and protection of the ecological productivity, and biological diversity of the Apalachicola River. The issues associated with this include loss of freshwater, loss of wetland habitat, and point-source

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    Johns Water Management Districts (SJWMD) for over 27 years of experience. During that time, she has been involved in wetland research and restoration in the Upper St. Johns River basin, the Kissimmee River Basin, and the Florida Everglades. Also, she is currently the President of the Society of Wetland Scientists (SWS). Background /Current Position Over her 27 years work of experience, she has only worked at two South Florida Water Management District (SFWMD) and St. Johns Water Management Districts

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    resources and the ecosystem services that are essential to human life (Franks et al. 2012). Rapid changes to the environment such as climate change and the use of natural resources affect the resilience of natural systems. Therefore, appropriate management and assessment of cumulative impacts on the terrestrial and marine environment from anthropogenic activities is crucial, albeit difficult, as impacts often extend outside of the geographic location of a development. Further, impacts from an action

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    Economic Value of Water

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    domestic, Industrial, agricultural, hydropower generation, mining, environmental etc activities but the present unsustainable use and mismanagement in the Kafue Basin of Zambia has put pressure on the resource and conflicts among stakeholders have emerged due to the diminishing quality and quantity of the water from the main source- the Kafue River. The current trends in the appropriation of water resources of the Kafue flats for human use, and particularly for irrigated agriculture are not sustainable

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    Essay about Development of the Colorado River

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    Prior to settlement of the western United States, the Colorado River roamed free. Starting from cool mountain streams, the river eventually became a thunderous, silty force of nature as it entered the canyons along its path. The river nourished wetlands and other riparian habitats from the headwaters in the Rocky Mountains to the delta at the Sea of Cortez in Northwest Mexico. Settlers along the river harnessed these waters mainly for agriculture via irrigation canals, but flooding from spring

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    BACKGROUND The Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) service territory is in the Pacific Northwest. In 1937, BPA was established to construct facilities required to market and transmit electric power from the Bonneville Dam located on the Columbia River and to construct facilities necessary to transmit that power. BPAs mandate has been expanded to be the marketing agent for power from all of the federally owned hydroelectric projects in the Pacific Northwest, as one of four regional Federal power

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    Water Remediation In Texas

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    rooted plant species” [16] there are no plans proposed to implement or seek funding for any of these pollution abatement actions. The Trinity River Authority states that their pollution abatement plan “…recognizes the responsibility of the soil and water conservation districts and the State Soil and Water Conservation Board to provide the master plan for their programs in the basin.” [17]. However, the State Soil and Water Conservation Board 2015 report and plan focuses on bacteria control in the Dallas/Ft

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    Georgia, Florida, and Alabama have been disputing over water from two major river basins. “The two basins are the Alabama-Coosa-Tallapoosa basin and the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint basin. These river systems are used for drinking water, power generation, agriculture, aquaculture, navigation, and recreation (1)”.This disputant has reached into local, state, and even federal level. This is one of the most important environmental issue in the southern region today. During times of drought were

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    the worst flood in American history affecting ten states in the Upper Mississippi River basin. The flooding lasted from late spring to fall, killing fifty-two people and damaging a 100,000 homes and businesses. The cause of the flooding was a heavy winter with lots of snow and a spring season full of rain, which saturated the soil. Instead, of a hot summer, the rain kept coming and the Upper Mississippi River Basin received three and a half times its normal rain. Since it continuously rained, the

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