Sustainable water management in the Southwestern United States: Reality ors rhetoric?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 7, 2010, Pages

  Marshall, Robert M ^a   Robles, Marcos D ^a   Majka, Daniel R ^a   Haney, Jeanmarie A ^a  

^a THE NATURE CONSERVANCY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GROUND WATER;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY; POPULATION GROWTH; STRATEGIC PLANNING; STREAM (RIVER); UNITED STATES; WATER FLOW; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER SUPPLY; WATERSHED; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; METHODOLOGY;

CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; SOUTHWESTERN UNITED STATES; WATER MOVEMENTS; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 77955381821     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0011687     Document Type: Article

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