World Water Resources and Their Future

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American Geophysical Union, 1979 - Nature - 415 pages
 

Contents

AUTHORS NOTE
1
General Outlines of the Water Cycle
23
25
44
The Earths Water Balance
51
WORLD FRESHWATER RESOURCES
61
Interpolation Formulas Based on Proportionality and Altitude
75
Hydrological Mapping
91
Lines of Future Research Into the Water Balance of Land Area
97
PART II
245
FUTURE WATER RESOURCES
269
The Water Component of the Human Environment
281
Ways of Combating Qualitative Depletion of Water Resources
287
Some Economic Considerations
295
Expenditures of Water for Ordinary Nonirrigation Agriculture
316
Fishery
322
Ways of Controlling the Water Cycle
333

The Water Balance of the Earths Land Area and Its Patterns
103
Surface Flood Runoff
144
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184
Elements of the Regimes of the Worlds Rivers
205
Conclusion World Water Resources in the Year 2000
367
BIBLIOGRAPHY
385
REFERENCES
404
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