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Handwritten notes on the Trinity River; handwritten notes on legislative action regarding the Trinity River dated 1937, 1941/03/26, and 1941/03/27.

This Integrated Watershed Management Plan (IWMP) is a collection of recommendations and an approach for managing the North Saskatchewan River (NSR) Watershed, sustaining water resources for the long-term and meeting the three strategic goals of Water for Life: Alberta's Strategy for Sustainability (2003). The plan offers advice to the Government of Alberta and watershed stakeholders for guiding watershed management decisions. It identifies specific actions that could be implemented; outlines roles and responsibilities of various players and suggests an implementation strategy based on both voluntary and statutory activities.

This volume presents a unique set of time series data concerning the environmental and biological dynamics of a pristine alpine-boreal river system in Norway. A simultaneous collection of data on climate, hydrology, erosion, water chemistry, primary production, invertebrates and fish provides an unusual insight into the ecology of a watercourse characteristic of this region of north-western Europe. Individual papers present data collected over 14 years, which provides an opportunity to understand the natural dynamics in a system with very little direct influence from human activities. The results indicate a level of variation that should be expected in natural systems, and provides a solid basis for a discussion of the best approach to the monitoring of biological diversity and environmental factors in rivers and lakes. The volume is aimed at researchers working with watershed management and aquatic sciences. It provides useful information and experiences of particular relevance to the implementation of the EU Frame Directive for Water

Metadata only record ; Conservation International helped to establish legislation enabling conservation concessions to be made to various conservation groups in Peru under the new Forestry Law. The Amazon Conservation Association (Asociacin para la Conservacin de la Cuenca Amaznica) is the first to establish a conservation concession by leasing 135,000 hectares of old-growth forest located in the Los Amigos watershed. ; PES-1 (Payments for Environmental Services Associate Award)

The Pend Oreille River watershed in northeastern Washington State is also referred to as Water Resource Inventory Area (WRIA) 62. WRIA 62 encompasses about 1,300 square miles but only represents about five percent of the total Pend Oreille River drainage basin. The Pend Oreille River, one of the major sub-basins of the Columbia River, drains the Clark Fork – Pend Oreille watershed which spans about 26,000 square miles and includes the fourth and fifth largest lakes in the United States: Flathead Lake in Montana and Lake Pend Oreille in Idaho, respectively. In accordance with Washington's Watershed Planning Act (Chapter 90.82 RCW), the WRIA 62 Planning Unit was formed in 1998 and includes federal, state, tribal and local government representation, members from industry, mining, private lumber, real estate and development, agriculture, environmental groups as well as residents of the watershed. The Planning Unit's mission is "to develop and implement a Watershed Plan addressing local concerns, watershed health and economic stability." The WRIA 62 Watershed Management Plan (Plan) is the product of over six years of work, during which the Planning Unit has overseen technical studies, reached consensus on watershed issues and has developed management actions to address these issues. The Plan is due to be approved by the Planning Unit and the Pend Oreille County Commissioners at the end of February 2005. It is intended to be a locally-supported, long-term Plan, focusing on water availability, and also addressing water quality and habitat in the Pend Oreille River watershed in Washington.

Humans have, by biological necessity, always lived in watersheds. This article provides an overview of humans' relationship to these watersheds as an introduction to a special issue of Thesis Eleven on watersheds. It describes the basic functioning of watersheds, how humans have always depended on them, and how they have slowly begun to manipulate them. Humans across the planet began by making strategic adjustments to water's downward flow to aid the procurement of water and fish. As small states, empires, and finally the Industrial Revolution unfolded, these interventions became more numerous with greater environmental impacts. The rate of riverine exploitation increased dramatically post-Second World War in line with the Great Acceleration. This, in turn, created our current worldwide ecological crisis. This crisis particularly affects the planet's watersheds, and in turn, humans. The article ends with the assertion that studies of such a complex event are by necessity multi-disciplinary and inter-regional. It then outlines the contents of this special issue which examines watersheds in Asia, America and Australia.

Upstream watershed is one of the sub-watersheds that serve to maintain the availability of water for the central and downstream region. So that, when damage occurs in that area, it will effect to the middle and lower area of the watershed. The purposes of this study were (1) to determine the stakeholders who involved in the rescue of Citarum watershed upstream, (2) to know the effectiveness of participatory institutions to change attitudes and behavior of society around the Citarum watershed upstream. This study was conducted using a quantitative approach supported by qualitative approach. Meanwhile, the results of this study showed (1) institutional participatory have successfully changed attitudes and behavior of society to not to dispose the household garbage and sewage into the river again (2) participatory institutional not yet managed to change the manner of private parties to not to dispose garbage and industrial waste into the river, and (3) participatory institutions in central are more effective to change society attitudes and behavior to be more concerned for the environment than the existing participatory institutions in the upstream. In generally, the participatory institutions have successfully established collaborative between public, private and government at the sub-watershed upstream.

AbstractThe Qiantang River, located in Zhejiang Province, China, is a major water supplier to a highly populated region for multiple uses. With economic development, the received pollutants exceeded its assimilative capacity, leading to algal blooms or fish kills. This study was an up‐to‐date evaluation of the assimilative capacity of the Qiantang River, investigating the influence of stream flow. A confidence of 75 and 90% of instream flows were selected as the design flows, while the traditional one‐dimensional point discharge model and QUAL2K model were used to analyse biochemical oxygen demand (BOD) assimilative capacity. The results showed that the assimilative capacity of 75% confidence instream flow was larger than that of 90% confidence. The assimilative capacity based on QUAL2K model considered almost all rates of BOD gain and loss, which were larger than that of one‐dimensional point discharge model. The total amount of BOD discharged into Qiantang River was 17 1283 t·a−1 in 2004. Under 75 and 90% confidence river flow conditions, the calculated total BOD reduction percentage of the whole river was 38.2 and 55.9%, respectively. Furthermore, the results were used as criteria for developing a BOD total maximum daily load (TMDL) in order to achieve the sustainable use of water resources derived from Qiantang River watershed.

Watershed planning has typically been approached as a technical problem in which water quality and quantity as influenced by the hydrology, topography, soil composition, and land use of a watershed are the significant variables. However, it is the human uses of land and water as resources that stimulate governments to seek planning. For the past decade or more, many efforts have been made to create democratic planning processes, which, it is hoped, will be viewed as legitimate by those the plans regulate. This article uses a case study of the Cache River watershed in southernmost Illinois to analyze the complicated historical and political economic context of a specific watershed planning process that occurred from 1993 through 1995. This article assesses the claims made about the democratic, grass-roots, deliberative nature of the planning process and casts doubt on the legitimacy of its outcomes. It also proposes an alternative form of governance that would be both democratic and capable of generating outcomes viewed as legitimate by most affected parties.

Metadata only record ; Although formal governmental programs have not made the best of links between upstream land managers and downstream water users, several financial arrangements for water and related environmental services have sprung up independently in the Segara basin. Several of these can be regarded as investments of basic social capital to promote sustainable use of water in the area. Important downstream buyers of watershed protection services are the regional drinking water company PDAM and a tourist rafting company, Lombok Inter Rafting. In the future, these and other water consumers such as hotels, light industry and domestic users could be encouraged to provide financial contributions to watershed protection. They are the "potential buyers" of watershed services. However, considerable development of workable mechanisms for charging, transfer and investment of such funds will be needed. ; PES-1 (Payments for Environmental Services Associate Award)