The Protection and Conservation of Water Resources.

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Notes on Author -- Preface -- Prefaceto the First Edition -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Water, Policy and Procedure -- 1.1 Pressing Needs for Conservation and Protection? -- 1.2 A Conceptual Framework for Water Regulation -- 1.3 The Historical Perspective -- 1.3.1 River and Spring Diversion, Dams and Flood Alleviation -- 1.3.2 Agriculture -- 1.3.3 Groundwater Development -- 1.3.4 Industry -- 1.3.5 Urbanisation and Supply: the Rise of an Industry -- 1.4 The Political Dimension -- 1.5 Summary -- Chapter 2 Water Resource Availability in Britain -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.1.1 Flooding: the First Extreme -- 2.1.2 Low Flows: the Other Extreme -- 2.1.3 Drought, Just Low Rainfall or Climate Change? -- 2.1.4 The Climate of Britain -- 2.2 Soils and Geoloy -- 2.3 British Aquifer Characteristics -- 2.4 Groundwater and Surface Water Abstraction -- 2.5 British Catchments -- 2.6 Summary -- Chapter 3 Institutions and Legislation for Resource Management -- 3.1 Regulation: A Dirty Word? -- 3.2 English Law -- 3.3 The Rise of Water Regulation Institutions -- 3.4 The Scottish Dimension -- 3.5 Privatisation in England and Wales -- 3.6 Geographical Structure of the Water Industry -- 3.7 Regulation of an Industry -- 3.8 Environmental Regulation (I): The Nra -- 3.9 Environmental Regulation (ii): The Environment Act 1995, Ea and Sepa -- 3.10 Water Industry Finance, Economic Regulation and Governance -- 3.11 Drinking Water Inspectorate -- 3.12 Supra-national Legislation -- 3.13 Summary -- Chapter 4 The Catchment Approach: Ways and Means -- 4.1 Sustainable Development -- 4.2 Frameworks for Sustainable Development and Water -- 4.3 Environmental Assessment -- 4.4 Evolution of Water Standard Setting -- 4.5 Trends in River Water Quality -- 4.6 Catchment Management Planning.

4.7 The Actual Plans for River Basins -- 4.8 Catchment Flood Management Plans (Cfmps) -- 4.9 River Basin Planning in Scotland -- 4.10 River Basin Plans and Planning in England and Wales -- 4.11 What Does a River Basin Management Plan Look Like? -- 4.12 Summary -- Chapter 5 Sustaining Bulk Supply: Consumption and Interference -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.1.1 England and Wales -- 5.1.2 Scotland -- 5.1.3 Rising Demand? -- 5.2 Anthropogenic Influences and Climate, Problems and Solutions -- 5.2.1 Human Impact -- 5.2.2 Climate Change, the Water Industry and the Regulators -- 5.3 Surface Waters, Reservoirs and River Regulation -- 5.4 Aquifer Recharge and Climate Change -- 5.5 Low Flows in Rivers and Possible Solutions -- 5.6 Impact of Over‐Abstraction on Wetlands -- 5.7 Impact of Land Drainage on Hydrology -- 5.8 Hydrological Effects of Urbanisation -- 5.9 Flood Control and River Engineering -- 5.9.1 Engineered options -- 5.9.2 Environmental Options -- 5.9.3 Scottish Rivers: a Case Study of Regulation -- 5.10 Summary -- Chapter 6 Sustaining Bulk Supply: Possible Solutions -- 6.1 Introduction: Supply or Demand Management? -- 6.1.1 Groundwater Exploitation -- 6.1.2 Groundwater and River Support in the Anglian Region -- 6.1.3 Leakage Abstraction in the Brighton Block -- 6.1.4 Supporting Flow in the Southern Chalk Rivers -- 6.1.5 Shropshire Groundwater Scheme -- 6.1.6 Groundwater Augmentation Schemes -- 6.2 Catchment Transfers -- 6.3 Other Options -- 6.4 Demand Management -- 6.4.1 Leakage Management -- 6.4.2 Domestic Metering -- 6.5 Irrigation Demand Management -- 6.5.1 Irrigation Delivery -- 6.5.2 Consumption and Restriction -- 6.5.3 Irrigation Scheduling -- 6.5.4 Unirrigated Soils and Water Conservation -- 6.6 Water and Effluent Re‐Use -- 6.7 Public Perceptions and Water Education -- 6.8 Summary -- Chapter 7 Water Quality Background Issues.

7.1 Introduction: Point and Non-Point Source Pollution -- 7.2 The Chemical Basis of Water Pollution -- 7.2.1 Water Acidity -- 7.2.2 Hardness -- 7.2.3 Reduction-Oxidation -- 7.2.4 Nitrates and Ammonia -- 7.2.5 Phosphate -- 7.2.6 Pesticides -- 7.2.7 Other Elements -- 7.2.8 Solvents -- 7.2.9 Radioactive Substances -- 7.2.10 Thermal Pollution of Waters -- 7.3 Biological Aspects of Water Quality -- 7.4 Hydrochemical Environments -- 7.4.1 Groundwater -- 7.4.2 Rivers -- 7.4.3 Lakes -- 7.4.4 Wetlands and Their Soils -- 7.5 Agrochemical Contamination in Catchments -- 7.5.1 Nitrates in Surface and Groundwaters -- 7.5.2 Phosphate Loading in Waters -- 7.5.3 Pesticides in Waters -- 7.6 Environmental Acidification -- 7.6.1 Natural Acidity -- 7.6.2 Soil Acidity following Soil Drainage and Mining -- 7.6.3 Acid Deposition -- 7.7 Particulate Matter and Nanoparticles -- 7.8 Urbanisation and Water Quality -- 7.9 Summary -- Chapter 8 Environmental Issues of Water Quality and Quantity -- 8.1 Complex Problems That will Not Go Away -- 8.2 The Problematic River Wandle -- 8.3 The River Kennet -- 8.4 The River Itchen -- 8.5 The East Anglian Broad Land and Waveney Valley -- 8.5.1 Origins, History and Nature of Broadland -- 8.5.2 Environmental Problems of the Region -- 8.5.3 Management Authorities, Structures and Strategies -- 8.5.4 Environmental Protection and Restoration -- 8.5.5 The Future for the Region -- 8.6 Somerset Levels and Moors -- 8.6.1 Physical Background -- 8.6.2 Landscape Origins -- 8.6.3 Problems -- 8.6.4 Conclusions -- 8.7 Afforestation and Woodland Planting -- 8.7.1 Afforestation and Water Quality -- 8.7.2 Afforestation and Water Yields -- 8.7.3 The Balquhidder Catchment Studies -- 8.7.4 Comparisons with Broadleaved Afforestation -- 8.7.5 Runoff, Sediment and Afforestation -- 8.8 Contamination of Groundwaters in the West Midlands -- 8.9 Soil Erosion.

8.9.1 The National Picture -- 8.9.2 The South Downs -- 8.10 Siltation of Reservoirs -- 8.11 Summary -- Chapter 9 Towards Solutions: Land Use and Technical Fixes -- 9.1 Introduction: Approaches -- 9.2 Land-Use Change and Water Management -- 9.2.1 To Divert Land or Extensify Agriculture? -- 9.2.2 Source or Resource Protection? -- 9.3 Mapping and Modelling -- 9.3.1 Spatial Modelling -- 9.3.2 Water Protection Zones (WPZs) -- 9.3.3 Hydrological Process Modelling -- 9.3.4 Data Problems with Modelling -- 9.4 Agri-Environmental Policy and Water -- 9.4.1 Best Management Practices, Codes of Practice and 'Sensitive' Farming -- 9.4.2 Nitrate Protection Zones -- 9.4.3 Non-Specific Protection Zones for Groundwaters -- 9.4.4 The Emergence of 'Environmentally Sensitive Areas' -- 9.4.5 Others -- 9.5 Vegetated Buffer Strips -- 9.6 Water Treatment and Blending -- 9.7 Summary -- Chapter 10 Framing Water Policies: Emerging Governance Arrangements -- 10.1 Accentuate the Normative -- 10.2 Pure Wickedness? -- 10.3 A Very Short Excursion in Environmental Economics -- 10.4 Market Failure and Water -- 10.5 Integratingwater Resource Management in Wfd -- 10.6 Water and Politial Science -- 10.7 Water and Economic Sectors -- 10.8 Analytical Frameworks -- 10.9 Ways, Means and Intermediaries -- 10.10 Adopting the Catchment Approach -- 10.11 Voluntary Organisations and Public Participation -- 10.12 Ppp and Pes -- 10.13 Down on the Farm -- 10.14 Rivers Trusts: A Call to Ngo Action? -- 10.15 The Westcountry Rivers Trust -- 10.16 South West Water United Utilities and PES -- 10.17 Success, Failure and Accountability -- 10.18 Conclusions -- Chapter 11 The USA, Australia, Europe and Lessons to be Learned: Lessons to be Learned? -- 11.1 Them and Us? -- 11.2 U.S. Case Studies: An Introduction -- 11.3 New York City Wateshed Programme (NYCWP) -- 11.4 Upper Susquehanna Coalition (USC).

11.5 New Zealand -- 11.6 Murray-Darling Basin and SE Queensland -- 11.7 Prelude to Continental Europe: A Shared Experience? -- 11.8 The Netherlands -- 11.9 Aalborg in Denmark -- 11.10 Example Catchment Groups in Britain -- 11.11 Britain: Lessons to be Learned? -- References -- Index -- EULA.

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