Sustainability of Engineered Rivers In Arid Lands: Challenge and Response

Regina Buono; Sephra Thomas

doi:10.1017/9781108261142

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Edited by Jurgen Schmandt, Houston Advanced Research Center, Aysegül Kibaroglu, MEF University, Istanbul
Edited in association with Regina Buono, University of Texas, Austin, Sephra Thomas, University of Texas, Austin

Publisher:: Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:: September 2021
Print publication year:: 2021
Online ISBN:: 9781108261142
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108261142

Subjects:: Earth and Environmental Sciences, Environmental Science, Hydrology, Hydrogeology and Water Resources

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This interdisciplinary volume examines how nine arid or semi-arid river basins with thriving irrigated agriculture are doing now and how they may change between now and mid-century. The rivers studied are the Colorado, Euphrates-Tigris, Jucar, Limarí, Murray-Darling, Nile, Rio Grande, São Francisco, and Yellow. Engineered dams and distribution networks brought large benefits to farmers and cities, but now the water systems face multiple challenges, above all climate change, reservoir siltation, and decreased water flows. Unchecked, they will see reduced food production and endanger the economic livelihood of basin populations. The authors suggest how to respond to these challenges without loss of food production, drinking water, or environmental health. The analysis of the political, hydrological, and environmental conditions within each basin gives policymakers, engineers, and researchers interested in the water/sustainability nexus a better understanding of engineered rivers in arid lands.

‘… an important contribution to the very timely topic of the challenges associated with using and protecting [river] resources. In particular, this unique group of contributors jointly show that the effects, both potential and observed, of climate change will necessitate changes in resource management. By considering prevailing conditions and the approaches currently taken with respect to such widely spread and differently managed systems, they offer readers many needed lessons … Recommended.’

I. D. Sasowsky Source: Choice Connect

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