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Adventures in Managing Water: Real-World Engineering Experiences is a collection of essays that present the challenges of providing adequate, reliable, affordable, and clean water supplies to communities around the world. These stories, shared by engineers and other water management professionals, express the trials, successes, lessons learned, and moments of enlightenment each professional faced while building institutions and creating water management policies in the United States and abroad. It will be of interest to students, engineers, planners, economists, and social scientists working in water management. |Adventures in Managing Water: Real-World Engineering Experiences is a collection of essays that present the challenges of providing adequate, reliable, affordable, and clean water supplies to communities around the world. These stories, shared by engineers and other water management professionals, express the trials, successes, lessons learned, and moments of enlightenment each professional faced while building institutions and creating water management policies in the United States and abroad. It will be of interest to students, engineers, planners, economists, and social scientists working in water management.Sponsored by the River Basin Planning, Policy, and Operations Technical Committee of the Planning and Management Council of the Environmental and Water Resources Institute of ASCE Adventures in Managing Water: Real-World Engineering Experiences is a collection of essays that present the challenges of providing adequate, reliable, affordable, and clean water supplies to communities around the world. These stories, shared by engineers and other water management professionals, express the trials, successes, lessons learned, and moments of enlightenment each professional faced while building institutions and creating water management policies in the United States and abroad. These essays are a compilation of field experiences, which includes adventures faced when coping with droughts, floods, and pollution issues in Australia, China, Uzbekistan, and other countries. The challenges involved in establishing policies for Lake Baikal in Russia and the Great Lakes in North America, for example, demonstrate the similarities across international boundaries. Managing river flows and their allocations in the United States and abroad requires more than the physical laws of hydrology and hydraulics. This book provides invaluable insight into real-world experiences of water engineers and other water management professionals.  It will be of interest to students, engineers, planners, economists, and social scientists working in water management.

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Author:   Daniel Peter Loucks ,  Laurel Saito
Publisher:   American Society of Civil Engineers
Imprint:   American Society of Civil Engineers
ISBN:  

9780784415337

ISBN 10:   0784415331
Pages:   234
Publication Date:   16 April 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Foreword Introduction Part I: Adventures in Africa Water Planning in Egypt: Reusing the Nile Leon Hermans, EgyptThe Vision Kid Leif Lillehammer, UgandaWuthering Heights – Tales from the Kingdom in the Sky Leif Lillehammer, Lesotho Digging a Well in Africa Hugo A. Loáiciga, KenyaWater for Food in North Africa Pete Loucks, AlgeriaWater from the Desert in Libya Pete Loucks, LibyaA Water Management Story from South Africa Ronnie Mckenzie, South AfricaThe Ultimate Water Manager H. P. Nachtnebel, Morocco From Working on the Railroad to Hydrologic Modelling—A Life of Lessons Geoff Pegram, South AfricaNavigating in the Estuaries of Mozambique Hubert Savenije, MozambiqueA água sabe o caminho (The Water Knows the Way) Hubert Savenije, MozambiqueDeveloping an Acceptance of Systems Methods for Water Resources Planning and Management in South Africa Oskar Sigvaldason and Thinus Basson, South Africa 　 Part II: Adventures in Asia Regulation of Lake Baikal Mikhail Bolgov, Alexander Buber, Alexander Lotov, RussiaAttempting Integrated Water Management in Bhutan Leon Hermans, BhutanPolitical Challenges of a Water Expert in Iran Pete Loucks and Laurel Saito, editorsKhong, the Mother of Water Leif Lillehammer, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, and ThailandEnjoying Caviar in the USSR Pete Loucks, USSRGrowing Qat in Yemen Pete Loucks, YemenPeace Talks on Water in the Middle East Jerome Delli Priscoli, Middle EastCombating Water Scarcity in Jordan David E. Rosenberg, JordanBuilding Collaborative Networks Laurel Saito, UzbekistanWorking with Farmers of the Sihu Basin (四湖流域), Hubei, China Slobodan P. Simonovic, ChinaRestoring the Marshes of Mesopotamia (Part 1) Eugene Z. Stakhiv, IraqRestoring the Marshes of Mesopotamia (Part 2) Eugene Z. Stakhiv, Iraq Part III: Adventures in Australia Building Bridges with Water Emily Barbour, AustraliaDeveloping Drainage During Droughts Graeme Dandy, Australia ""Optimizing"" a Piped Irrigation System Graeme Dandy, Australia Part IV: Adventures in Europe Years of Experience versus Computer Models Thomas Ackermann, GermanyTechnical and Cultural Exchanges in Ukraine Lily Baldwin, UkraineLong-Term Water Resources Planning—Almost 50 Years Later Janusz Kindler, PolandWorking Behind the Curtain Pete Loucks, Poland, RomaniaChanging a Culture in Portugal Pete Loucks, PortugalInsiders, Outsiders, Funds, and Perseverance: Ingredients for Transboundary Water Management H.P. Nachtnebel, AustriaA Conversation During an Athenian Drought David R. Purkey, Athens 360 BCFloods Can Damage Careers in Communist Countries Andreas H. Schumann, GermanyHow Water Probing Changed My Life Forever Andreas H. Schumann, GermanyOne Talk Leads to a Regional Program Uri Shamir, The NetherlandsTrying to Keep Lake Balaton Blue László Somlyódy and Pete Shanahan, Hungary Part V: Adventures in the Americas Water Crises Are for Everyone Benedito (Ben) Braga, BrazilA Lock and Dam Story: Part 1. Background Ben Dysart, USA A Lock and Dam Story: Part 2. My Involvement Ben Dysart, USA A Lock and Dam Story: Part 3. Lessons on How Government Works Ben Dysart, USALessons I Learned from Western Movies and TV Shows David T. Ford, USA Inventing GIS Walter M. Grayman and Richard M. Males, USARescuing a Beautiful River Neil Grigg, USAHow a Civil Engineer Learned to Work with People Stacy M. Langsdale, USA and CanadaManaging Our Nation's Water Resources When It Rains a Lot: An Example Deborah H. Lee, USA Into the Realm of the Patagonian Andes Leif Lillehammer, ChileManaging Lake Water Levels Pete Loucks, USA and CanadaRestoring the Everglades Pete Loucks, USAMistaken Objectives Pete Loucks, USAThe Challenges and Rewards of a Career Managing Water Lindell Ormsbee, USAFollowing My Interests and Instincts Laurel Saito, USAStarting It Simple Uri Shamir, Canada Red River ""Flood of the Century"" through Human Eyes Slobodan P. Simonovic, Canada A Computer Program Named Randy RabanSlobodan P. Simonovic, Canada As Is Often Said, ""Rome Was Not Built in a Day"" Jery Stedinger, USACleaning Up Pollution and .　.　. Wait, What, Where? Cristiane Queiroz Surbeck, USAEngineering Your Own Education Desiree Tullos, China, USAEffective Communication Desiree Tullos, USA Part VI: Adventures in International Organizations The Dublin Principles on Water and the Environment Jerome Delli Priscoli, InternationalThe World Water Council (WWC) and World Water Forums (WWF) Jerome Delli Priscoli, InternationalChanging the Terms of Discourse in World Water Debates Jerome Delli Priscoli, International Developing a World Bank Water Sector Strategy Jerome Delli Priscoli, International About the Authors Index

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