Environmentally sound irrigated agriculture in the arid west: New challenges for water resources planners and environmental scientists

Conference · Sun Mar 31 23:00:00 EST 1991

OSTI ID:5208987

Quinn, N W.T.

This is an exciting time for water resources planners and environmental scientists in the State and Federal Agencies in California. The growing environmental awareness of the public has raised their interest in the manner by which water is managed and allocated. Current and future impending water shortages are challenging engineers and planners to make sound policy and system operations decisions to maximize the utility of scarce water resources while ensuring that the environment within which we live is adequately protected to the satisfaction of an informed public. New and innovative decision support systems are needed to meet these challenges that are flexible, comprehensible and accurate and which allow the public a more visible role in the planning process. These changes may help to bring the agricultural and environmental communities closer together in finding solutions to water resources problems and wrest policy making for water resources management out of the hands of lawyers and the courts and restore it to those whose livelihoods are affected by the intentions of these policies. 4 refs.

• Research Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Lab., CA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: DOI; Department of the Interior, Washington, DC (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: AC03-76SF00098
• OSTI ID: 5208987
• Report Number(s): LBL-30836; CONF-9104302--1; ON: DE92000807
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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