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Sep 1972
Potential United States Water-Supply Development
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Volume 98, Issue 3
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With no storage, the supply of surface water available in conterminous United States would be only 8% of the average annual runoff, whereas if one-half of the existing storage capacity were used to augment low flow, 23% of the average annual runoff would be available throughout all but 2% of the years. If all the existing storage capacity were so used, 34% of the average annual runoff would be available, and with unlimited storage capacity 86% would be available. The other 14% would be evaporated from the 3.5 billion acre-ft of storage that would be required to regulate the flow. For water worth $0.05 per 1,000 gal, development of 80% of the average annual runoff of conterminous United States would be economically justified. In 10 of the 17 water resources regions of conterminous United States, development of surface water resources is less than one-half of the potential development.
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Journal of the Irrigation and Drainage Division
Volume 98 • Issue 3 • September 1972
Pages: 479 - 492
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© 1972 American Society of Civil Engineers.
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Published in print: Sep 1972
Published online: Feb 11, 2021
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Clayton H. Hardison, F.ASCE
Research Hydraulic Engr., U.S. Geological Survey, Arlington, Va.
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