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Apr 26, 2012
Water Conservation on the Supply Side, Using Underground Water Storage Systems
Publication: World Environmental and Water Resources Congress 2008: Ahupua'A
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With continuing population increases, society's demands for water will also increase. Most governmental agencies are expanding their consumer-based water conservation programs, as an important way of meeting these increased, future demands. With global warming increasing evaporation rates, avoiding evaporative losses with future water storage projects is also a significant step in "supply-side", water conservation. Evaporative losses from surface water storage reservoirs are function of local evaporative rates and the reservoir's effective depth. Based on this study, approximately 20% additional surface storage capacity would be required to account for the evaporative losses throughout these fourteen states. Avoiding evaporative losses by storing water underground can be accomplished by a variety of traditional methods, as well as a new method of underground water storage.
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© 2008 American Society of Civil Engineers.
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Published online: Apr 26, 2012
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ASCE Technical Topics:
- Buildings
- Evaporation
- Facilities (by type)
- Hydraulic engineering
- Hydraulic structures
- Hydrologic engineering
- Reservoirs
- Storage facilities
- Structural engineering
- Structures (by type)
- Underground storage
- Water and water resources
- Water conservation
- Water management
- Water policy
- Water storage
- Water supply
- Water supply systems
- Water use
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Vice President of Engineering, PS Systems, Inc., 12081 West Alameda Parkway, #230, Lakewood, Colorado 80228. E-mail: [email protected]
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