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Water Budgets: Foundations for Effective Water-Resources and Environmental Management

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2007

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Healy, Richard W, Winter, Thomas C, LaBaugh, James W, and Franke, O Lehn, 2007, Water Budgets: Foundations for Effective Water-Resources and Environmental Management: Geological Survey (U.S.).

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INTRODUCTION Water budgets provide a means for evaluating availability and sustainability of a water supply. A water budget simply states that the rate of change in water stored in an area, such as a watershed, is balanced by the rate at which water flows into and out of the area. An understanding of water budgets and underlying hydrologic processes provides a foundation for effective water-resource and environmental planning and management. Observed changes in water budgets of an area over time can be used to assess the effects of climate variability and human activities on water resources. Comparison of water budgets from different areas allows the effects of factors such as geology, soils, vegetation, and land use on the hydrologic [...]

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