Relationship between water withdrawals and freshwater ecosystem water scarcity quantified at multiple scales for a Great Lakes watershed

Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management

Volumn 139, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 671-681

  Mubako, Stanley T ^a   Ruddell, Benjamin L ^a   Mayer, Alex S ^b  

^a Arizona State University   (United States)

^b Michigan Technological University   (United States)

Author keywords

Ecological flows; Economic use; Freshwater ecosystem; Great lakes; Integrated water resources management (IWRM); Michigan water withdrawal assessment process (MI WWAP); Scale; Thresholds; Water withdrawals

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; LAKES; STREAM FLOW; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER SUPPLY; WATERSHEDS;

ECOLOGICAL FLOWS; ECONOMIC USE; FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM; GREAT LAKES; INTEGRATED WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT; SCALE; THRESHOLDS; WATER WITHDRAWAL;

ECOSYSTEMS;

CATCHMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM; THRESHOLD; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER RESOURCE; WATER USE; WATERSHED;

GREAT LAKES [NORTH AMERICA];

EID: 84882809558     PISSN: 07339496     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)WR.1943-5452.0000374     Document Type: Article

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