LEADER 07110nam 2200709Ia 450 001 9910957321903321 005 20251116141103.0 010 $a9786610185306 010 $a9780309171571 010 $a0309171571 010 $a9781280185304 010 $a1280185309 010 $a9780309569767 010 $a0309569761 035 $a(CKB)110986584753176 035 $a(EBL)3377359 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000183287 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11199649 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000183287 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10195211 035 $a(PQKB)10630053 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3377359 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3377359 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10071386 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL18530 035 $a(OCoLC)923270025 035 $a(Perlego)4735508 035 $a(BIP)7007514 035 $a(EXLCZ)99110986584753176 100 $a20010406d2000 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aInvestigating groundwater systems on regional and national scales /$fCommittee on U.S.G.S. Water Resources Research, Water Science and Technology Board, Commission on Geosciences, Environment and Resources, National Research Council 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aWashington, D.C. ;$a[Great Britain] $cNational Academy Press$dc2000 215 $a1 online resource (xiv, 143 pages) $cillustrations 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a9780309071826 311 0 $a0309071828 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $a""Investigating Groundwater Systems on Regional and National Scales""; ""Copyright""; ""Preface""; ""Contents""; ""Executive Summary""; ""1 Groundwater and Society ""; ""A CRITICAL RESOURCE""; ""Drinking and Irrigation Water""; ""Streamflow and Ecosystems""; ""A THREATENED RESOURCE""; ""AN OVERDEVELOPED RESOURCE""; ""Regional Subsidence""; ""Salt-Water Intrusion""; ""Resource Depletion""; ""THE NECESSITY FOR CONJUNCTIVE MANAGEMENT""; ""CONCLUSIONS""; ""2 Approaches to Synthesis of Groundwater Issues at the Regional Scale ""; ""USGS GROUNDWATER PROGRAMSa???PAST AND PRESENT"" 327 $a""The Changing Arena of Hydrogeology"" ""Regional Aquifer-System Analysis (RASA) Program""; ""National Water-Quality Assessment Program""; ""Groundwater Monitoring Networks""; ""Other Current USGS Programs""; ""Ground-Water Resources Program""; ""NEW OPPORTUNITIES AND MANDATES""; ""An Emphasis on Sustainability""; ""Alternative Meanings of "Regional"""; ""PROPOSED FRAMEWORK FOR REGIONAL-SCALE GROUNDWATER STUDIES""; ""Regional Groundwater Assessment""; ""Regional Groundwater Science""; ""Example: Middle Rio Grande""; ""Regionalization""; ""CONCLUSIONS"" 327 $a""3 Institutional Integration and Collaboration "" ""EXTERNAL COLLABORATION""; ""Rationale and Benefits""; ""Conditions for and Obstacles to Collaboration""; ""INTERNAL COLLABORATION""; ""Federal-State Cooperative Water Program""; ""National Water-Quality Assessment Program""; ""Toxic Substances Hydrology Program""; ""CONCLUSIONS""; ""4 Scientific Issues ""; ""AQUIFER MANAGEMENT""; ""Scientific and Management Issues""; ""USGS Roles in Aquifer Management""; ""NATURAL GROUNDWATER RECHARGE""; ""Scientific and Management Issues""; ""USGS Roles in Groundwater Recharge"" 327 $a""GROUNDWATER QUALITY AND MOVEMENT IN SURFICIAL MATERIALS"" ""Scientific and Management Issues""; ""USGS Roles in Surficial Material Hydrogeology""; ""GROUNDWATER-SURFACE WATER INTERACTIONS""; ""Scientific and Management Issues""; ""USGS Roles in Groundwater-Surface Water Interactions""; ""GROUNDWATER IN KARST AND FRACTURED AQUIFERS""; ""Scientific and Management Issues""; ""USGS Roles in Karst and Fractured-Rock Studies""; ""CHARACTERIZATION OF SUBSURFACE HETEROGENEITY""; ""Scientific and Management Issues""; ""USGS Roles in Characterization of Subsurface Heterogeneity"" 327 $a""NUMERICAL MODELING"" ""Scientific and Management Issues""; ""USGS Roles in Numerical Modeling""; ""FACILITATING USE OF GROUNDWATER INFORMATION IN DECISION-MAKING""; ""Quantifying and Reducing Uncertainty in Predictions""; ""Scaling Available Information to the Regional Level""; ""Developing Decision-Making and Risk Models for Groundwater Use""; ""CONCLUSIONS""; ""5 Delivery and Accessibility of Groundwater Data ""; ""USERS OF GROUNDWATER DATA""; ""CONTENT OF GROUNDWATER DATA""; ""FORMAT OF GROUNDWATER DATA""; ""Web-Based Data Sets on a National Scale""; ""Web-Based Data Sets on Regional Scales"" 330 $aGroundwater is a basic resource for humans and natural ecosystems and is one of the nation's most important natural resources. Groundwater is pumped from wells to supply drinking water to about 130 million U.S. residents and is used in all 50 states. About 40 percent of the nation's public water supply and much of the water used for irrigation is provided by groundwater. Despite the importance of groundwater as one of our most precious natural resources, an organized, effective program to provide an ongoing assessment of the nation's groundwater resources does not exist. With encouragement from the U.S. Congress, the USGS is planning for a new program of regional and national scale assessment of U.S. groundwater resources, thus helping bring new order to its various groundwater resources-related activities. The Survey's senior scientists requested advice in regard to the design of such a program. In response, the committee undertook this study in support of developing an improved program relevant to regional and national assessment of groundwater resources. This report is a product of the Committee on USGS Water Resources Research, which provides consensus advice on scientific, research, and programmatic issues to the Water Resources Division (WRD) of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). The committee is one of the groups that work under the auspices of the Water Science and Technology Board of the National Research Council (NRC). The committee considers a variety of topics that are important scientifically and programmatically to the USGS and the nation, and it issues reports when appropriate. This report concerns the work of the WRD in science and technology relevant to assessments of groundwater resources on regional and national scales. The USGS has been conducting scientific activity relevant to groundwater resources for over 100 years and, as summarized in Appendix A, today groundwater-related work occurs throughout the WRD. 606 $aGroundwater$zUnited States 606 $aWater resources development 615 0$aGroundwater 615 0$aWater resources development. 676 $a553.790973 712 02$aNational Research Council (U.S.).$bCommittee on U.S. Geological Survey Water Resources Research. 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910957321903321 996 $aInvestigating groundwater systems on regional and national scales$94351377 997 $aUNINA