Coping with urban water shortages during drought: the effects of legal and administrative factors. Final report

Technical Report · Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 EST 1992

OSTI ID:7280935

Dziegielewski, B; Ferrell-Dillard, R; Beck, R E

The study describes the results of a survey of 547 local water supply systems serving some 31 million residents of urban areas in the states of Alabama, California, Florida, Oklahoma, Tennessee and Wyoming. While examining the legal and administrative aspects of drought management, the survey also included the assessment of the current status of drought preparedness and long-term drought protection among the responding water supply systems. The rate of legal or administrative problems encountered during drought response was surprisingly low, affecting only twenty percent of all implementing systems. The low incidence of difficulties counters a widespread assumption that the legal environment frequently restrains or constricts drought response efforts.

• Research Organization: Southern Illinois Univ., Carbondale, IL (United States). Dept. of Geography
• OSTI ID: 7280935
• Report Number(s): PB-92-205145/XAB; CNN: DI-14-08-0001-G1897
• Resource Relation: Other Information: Sponsored by Geological Survey, Reston, VA. Water Resources Div
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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