Heads above Water : The Inside Story of the Edwards Aquifer Recovery Implementation Program /

Since the 1950s, competing interests for use of Edwards Aquifer resources-the primary source of water for more than two million people in south central Texas-were at war. They had tried many times to resolve their differences about how to conserve, allocate, and use the water, but had always failed....

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gulley, Robert L., 1945- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: College Station : Texas A & M University Press, 2015.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Edwards Aquifer Recovery Implementation Program.
Water-supply > Management.
Water rights.
Water quality management.
Environmental law.
Endangered species.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Real Estate > General.
Water rights > Texas > Edwards Aquifer Region.
Environmental law > Texas.
Water quality management > Texas > Edwards Aquifer Region.
Endangered species > Texas > Edwards Aquifer Region.
Water-supply > Texas > Edwards Aquifer Region > Management.
Texas > Edwards Aquifer.
Texas.
Edwards Aquifer (Tex.)
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The "Edwards issue"
  • "What's past is prologue"
  • John Hall and the Edwards underground river
  • Judge Lucius Bunton and Sierra Club v. Babbitt
  • Senate bill 1477 and the creation of the Edwards Aquifer Authority
  • Sharpening the "blunt axe" of federal intervention
  • Attempts by the Edwards Aquifer Authority to tackle the Edwards issue
  • The Edwards Aquifer Recovery Implementation Program
  • Organizing the Program
  • Tackling the minimum flow issue
  • Funding and allocating costs
  • Reflections
  • Appendix 1. Participants in the Edwards Aquifer Recovery Implementation Program
  • Appendix 2. The Endangered Species Act
  • Appendix 3. Texas water law
  • Appendix 4. Elements of the bottom-up approach.

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