World Water Resources and Their Future |
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 |
vii | 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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Africa altitude amount of water annual anthropogenic approximately basis belt bodies of water catchment Caucasus Central Asia computations conservation of water continents countries curves discharge effluents elements erosion evaporation evapotranspiration factors flow forest geographic glaciers Greater Caucasus groundwater runoff hectare hydrological hydrosphere important increase industrial infiltration capacity irrigation km³ L'vovich lakes land area Leningrad long-range forecasts maps method Moscow natural North northern oceans percent period plants pollution possible precipitation principles problem production rainfall reason reduced reservoirs river basins rivers and bodies role runoff coefficient savannah sediment yield sewage silt charge slope snow snowmelt soil moisture solving South America southern Soviet SSSR steppe streamflow streams surface runoff Table taiga take into account total runoff total wetting transformations transpiration USSR Volga water balance water component water consumption water cycle water management water resources water supply world water balance zonality zone