Water Resource Management In The Southeast

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region have developed to a huge extent and have been used so far for a lot of reasons like navigation, flood control, water supply, hydropower, water quality and recreation. Though the amount of water available is plenty but still it can be used only in limited reserve. This was very clearly understood when the region faced droughts in 1981, 1986 and 1988 and this ultimately reduced the availability of water and a lot of conservative measures were required to continue despite the shortage of water. In the entire twentieth century many of the states situated in the Western United States fought over each other over the available supplies of water but this was very rare or at least not too common in the eastern region of the nation where it has been noticed that Fresh water was available in plenty. (Erhardt, p.211) But the relentless draughts the region faced in the 1800's changed the entire scenario for the states Alabama, Florida and Georgia making them take notice of the amount of ...

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equity. (Kundell and Tetens, p.67) The substitutes that most communities and citizen groups have come up with when thinking of water conservation and water democracy are the major concept that should be focused on and be made as the backbone of the water policy. To be able to do this it is very important that we conduct studies to analyze the cause and the structure of water conflicts and also the possible ways to bring about cooperative settlements so that we avoid the future international water conflicts that will not only be increase in number but may also turn towards being more violent. Considering water is a very important resource and the fact that economic development, population ...

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