BMPs as a Water Balance Asset in Arid Regions
Publication: World Environmental and Water Resources Congress 2008: Ahupua'A
Abstract
This paper explores a few of the factors relevant to BMP practices and selection as affected by arid climate conditions, and provides a case study where evaporation rather than discharge was the principle detention facility outlet mechanism. It is intended to contribute to discussions on arid regions hydrology that are currently under way, particularly within ASCE's EWRI Urban Water Resources Research Council, and to stimulate dialogue regarding stormwater management practice in such areas. While BMP solutions seem by definition to have wide extensibility, it is not clear to the authors that BMP solutions are universally effective. Social context and prevailing infrastructure can make accepted practice in BMP technologies in one area inappropriate in another. The case study demonstrates control of discharge totally by evaporation in an arid region where this was preferred, but it is recognized that alternative measures might be preferred in regions where groundwater storage is an option or where evaporative losses are to be avoided. There is already some substance in the literature that reflects this kind of appropriate discrimination of preferred solutions, but there remains a significant need to extend and further develop this understanding.
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© 2008 American Society of Civil Engineers.
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Published online: Apr 26, 2012
ASCE Technical Topics:
- Arid lands
- Asset management
- Best Management Practices (BMPs)
- Business management
- Case studies
- Engineering fundamentals
- Environmental engineering
- Evaporation
- Financial management
- Hydrologic engineering
- Hydrologic properties
- Hydrology
- Irrigation engineering
- Methodology (by type)
- Practice and Profession
- Research methods (by type)
- Stormwater management
- Water and water resources
- Water balance
- Water discharge
- Water management
- Water policy
- Water resources
- Water treatment
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