U.S. Domestic Resources
Welcome to the H2infO U.S. Domestic Resources Page. On this page you will find U.S. Water Partnership member resources aimed at helping domestic stakeholders address the unique water challenges of the United States.
U.S. Domestic Resources
Holding Back the Waters: Dams as Water Resource Monuments
The National Institutes for Water Resources
This is a guiding premise in understanding dams. What they have in common their shared purposes of greater significance than their many differences. The following discussion is mainly about the smaller, little publicized dams.Read more
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United StatesNorth AmericaArid Arizona Not Lacking Water Education Programs
The National Institutes for Water Resources
The large number of water education programs within Arizona seems to indicate that residents have much to learn about water. Admittedly, living in a desert climate can itself be a water education, but despite this shared experience, and often because of it, Arizonans still can improve their water...Read more
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United StatesNorth AmericaManaging the Interconnecting Waters: the Groundwater-Surface Water Dilemma
The National Institutes for Water Resources
The dilemma has to do with the waters of the earth being categorized as either surface water or groundwater. The classifications seem clear enough, surface water occurring above ground, ground-water found below ground. A belief in surface water here and ground-water there simplifies the making of...Read more
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United StatesNorth AmericaFish Behavior and Its Use in the Capture and Culture of Fishes
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January 1, 1971U.S. Agency for International Development
The commercial aquaculture or fish farm shows great promise as a source of low cost, high quality protein. However, as few reliable data on costs and returns to the industry exist, before investment decisions are made, certain critical factors such as water quality, species selection, and...Read more
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United StatesNorth AmericaThe Potential for Fishery Development in the Caribbean and Adjacent Seas
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January 1, 1971U.S. Agency for International Development
This report begins with a brief geographical and political history of the area and then discusses at greater length the various kinds and characteristics of fish in the Caribbean. The best source of information about the fish resources of the Caribbean has been the extensive investigations of the...Read more
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United StatesNorth AmericaProspects of the World's Fishery Resources With Emphasis on the Western Hemisphere
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January 1, 1970U.S. Agency for International Development
The world's production from the aquatic environment, excluding whales, was doubled in the decade between 1952 and 1962, from 22 million metric tons to 45 million metric tons and in the period from 1962 to the present, from 45 million metric tons to about 70 million metric tons. The most rapid...Read more
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United StatesNorth AmericaTechnical and Socio-Economic Factors as They Affect Dam site Selection in the Citanduy River System; a Special Report
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January 1, 1973U.S. Agency for International Development
To identify socio-economic research issues for fisheries development in the world's developing nations, 22 university and governmental personnel met for two and one-half days in October 1972, at the University of Rhode Island. Participants were divided into three working groups, with each...Read more
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United StatesNorth AmericaFreshwater Fish Pond Culture and Management
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January 1, 1973U.S. Agency for International Development
A brief but thorough discussion of potential fish protein concentrate (FPC) and projections of its future harvest, accompanied by several illustrative tables. FDC ideally is that product resulting from modern technologies which has been transformed into a stable, dry, high amino acid quality, non-...Read more
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United StatesNorth AmericaPredicting the Hydrologic Effects of Land Modification
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June 20, 1973U.S. Agency for International Development
In summary, by comparing the "before" and "after" predicted hydrologic outputs from a coupled stochastic rainfall model and a deterministic method for estimating runoff, a procedure for comparing the hydrologic effects of land use changes on ungauged watersheds has been...Read more
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United StatesNorth AmericaAnnual Report for 1975 from the International Center for Aquaculture
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January 1, 1975U.S. Agency for International Development
The report details findings on technical assistance in aquaculture in developing countries; effective methods of disseminating information on aquaculture; providing training and educational opportunities in international development; and developing a worldwide collection of data on important food...Read more
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