Adventures in Managing Water: Real-World Engineering Experiences - Softcover

American Society Of Civil Engineers

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0784415331 ISBN 13: 9780784415337

Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers, 2019

Synopsis

Adventures in Managing Water: Real-World Engineering Experiences is a collection of essays that present the challenges of providing adequate, reliable, affordable, and clean water supplies to communities around the world. These stories, shared by engineers and other water management professionals, express the trials, successes, lessons learned, and moments of enlightenment each professional faced while building institutions and creating water management policies in the United States and abroad. These essays are a compilation of field experiences, which includes adventures faced when coping with droughts, floods, and pollution issues in Australia, China, Uzbekistan, and other countries. The challenges involved in establishing policies for Lake Baikal in Russia and the Great Lakes in North America, for example, demonstrate the similarities across international boundaries. Managing river flows and their allocations in the United States and abroad requires more than the physical laws of hydrology and hydraulics.

Edition details

• Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0784415331
• ISBN 13: 9780784415337
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 300
• Editor: Daniel Peter Loucks, Ph.D., P.E., Hon.D.WRE, Laurel Saito