Envisioning the Agenda for Water Resources Research in the Twenty-First Century (2001) / Chapter Skim
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1. Introduction
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The fragmented policies that guided water resources research in the twentieth century will probably be inadequate to foster the development of needed water-based technologies and understandings in such an environment. While the research policies of mid-century fostered much important research, the erosion of these policies by the century's end frequently resulted in programs that focused on short-term, narrowly defined problems, lacked coordination, and sometimes failed to anticipate the emer5
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Moreover, much of that growth occurred in truly arid regions of the Southwest (e.g., Tucson, Phoenix, Las Vegas, and southern Californian, where new water supplies are only available through gToundwater mining or imports from other regions which are increasingly unwilling to allow their own water resources to be diverted elsewhere. Perversely, water use per capita is greater in the nation's chest regions than in the more humid areas.
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Fossil groundwater, which represents a resource that is not renewable by natural mechanisms during our lifetimes, may have been recharged several thousand years ago. If these sources are to be utilized effectively, it will be critical for water resource managers to better understand the distribution and variability of both surface water and groundwater supplies.
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The intermittent monitoring of water-quality parameters and the piecemeal regulation of individual contaminants independent of larger-scare biogeochemical arid ecosystem processes, both of which charactenzed the twentieth censor, will be inadequate. Because the availability, fate, and transport of many critical contaminants is controlled by interactions with natural organic material in soils and sediments and in solution, a holistic and predictive understanding of water, carbon, and nutrient cycles wait be required to address and manage water quality problems during this century.
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The scarcity of water in this region is evident ir' the sparse vegetation' found within the Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge, 60 miles south of Albuquerque. fragmented and piecemeal institutional arrangements for managing the supplies and quality of water are unlikely to be sufficient to meet the water challenges of the future.
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Indeed, virtually every cabinet department contains one or more agencies with responsibility for some aspect of water resources management. Federal agency research agendas are largely planned and conducted independently of each other and sometimes independently of the research efforts conducted at the nation's universities.
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