Delta Waters Research to Support Integrated Water and Environmental Management in the Lower Mississippi River (2013) / Chapter Skim
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1 Introduction
1 Introduction
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International scientific communities have organized deltaic research consortia, including the International Geosphere Biosphere Program (IGBP) ; Land-Ocean Interactions in the Coastal Zone (LOICZ)
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This report offers advice to the Water Institute that it might use as part of its strategic planning process. The NRC and the Water Institute agreed upon a scope of work that focuses on strategic research to support integrated water resources management in the lower Mississippi River delta and includes international comparative assessments (Box 1-1)
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The Institute's focus is on the lower Mississippi River and its delta and coastal region, but it also will draw upon ideas, technologies, and solutions from around the world in addressing local prob lems, and to export knowledge to address water management issues in deltaic and coastal systems globally. The Institute plans to conduct integrated research that explores linkages among natural science, engineering, and the dynamics of social and economic systems that underpin water management decisions.
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SOURCE: EPA, 2006. FIGURE 1-2 Major international deltas and their river basins.
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, and its multiple missions of flood control, navigation, power generation and rural electrification, soil conservation, and community planning represented a milestone and major advance in integrated water resources management. In its early river basin manifestations by the U.S.
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White reflected on the 50-year record of integrated water management, citing the need to (1) continue to expand the range of choice among management measures; (2)
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is a five-state entity that convenes discussions and sponsors studies of numerous water-related issues of broad importance to many users in the upper Mississippi River basin. The Delaware River basin has been managed by a unique federal-state river basin commission since 1961 to promote regional economic development, protect the environment, and improve community quality of life.
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In the lower Mississippi River and delta region, the primary water sectors include navigation, flood mitigation, hurricane protection, water supply, fisheries, and ecosystems management. The report identifies opportunities to obtain better information on natural, social, economic, and governance dimensions of water and related resources, their relations and connections, and shows how that information can be used in management decisions.
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Within this context, this report concentrates on the lower Mississippi River deltaic and coastal areas. More complete integration of lower river and delta will require some attention to the division of Mississippi River flows at the Old River control structure, which is an important feature in the Corps of Engineers' Mississippi River and Tributary (MR & T)
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. Integrated water and environmental management must draw upon this full range of environmental timescales and translate them into meaningful interpretations for human time scales, which themselves are a matter for focused deliberation.
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Comparative assessments between the lower Mississippi River and other lower river regions present both challenges and opportunities. At one level, the history, hydrology, engineering structures, and other features of the lower Mississippi River region are unique.
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International water researchers and organizations such as the International Geosphere Biosphere Project Land-Ocean Interactions in the Coastal Zone (LOICZ) , Delta Alliance, and Connecting Delta Cities networks, from which the report has benefited, also may find it useful.
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