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7 Managed Underground Storage in A Water Resource Systems Context
7 Managed Underground Storage in A Water Resource Systems Context
Pages 269-276
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Finally, current and prospective global climate change threatens to alter both the magnitude water available in some regions and the timing of water availability. The result is that our water resource systems will be characterized by growing demands and static or shrinking supplies.
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This represents a departure from the way water resources have been developed and managed in the United States. Until the late to mid–twentieth century the primary means of responding to water scarcity was to build surface water storage and conveyance projects.
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In a related way, managed underground storage can be utilized to provide drought protection and protection against the failure of surface infrastructure systems that are vulnerable to earthquakes and other natural hazards. It can also be used to improve the financial and operational efficiency of water production facilities, such as desalination and water purification plants, allowing these facilities to operate at relatively steady levels of output despite seasonal variability in water demands.
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For example, since 1972 Florida has been divided into five water management districts, which roughly correspond to surface watersheds; the South Florida Water Management District coordinates water supply, ecosystem restoration, and coastal and terrestrial water quality on a large scale. Other efforts are much newer.
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This need should be viewed from the perspective of a larger national need to reinvest in monitoring, data acquisition, and data retrieval for water resources. Specifically, the trend of disinvestment in water resources monitoring, data acquisition, and retrieval needs to be reversed soon if the nation is to address successfully, and at reasonable costs, its mount
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. Overall, albeit focused on issues surrounding managed underground storage, this report has highlighted the complexity of modern water management, especially in areas facing population growth, increasing competition for water for energy and the environment, earlier seasonal snowmelt, and other climate change issues.
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However, each of these has its limits. The use of water storage facilities remains an essential component of water management, particularly in areas where water availability varies greatly over seasons or years, such as the arid Southwest.
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