GPHY 103 Lecture 25: GPHY 103 Lecture 25
19 Dec 2016
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Groundwater mining; unsustainable extraction from an aquifer. Question 9: elements of water resource management and prediction/forecasting future needs: it was on the review slides (the ogallala video). Climate change (we know evaporation increases with rising temperatures). Q12: water pricing seldom reflects the infrastructure for water delivery. Q13: federal water quality guidelines are not legally enforceable regulations. Q17: new york city built the croton river basin reservoir and aqueduct system because the population of the city was nearly 300,000 and the shallow ground water was being contaminated by human waste. Q18: prince edward island is 100% reliant on groundwater [only territory/province in. Q19: coliform is harmless to us usually, but indicates contamination from sewage/animal waste. Mineral salts typically have no adverse water quality effects. Bc would initially not ratify the treaty. Flood benefits would be paid to canada as dams were built, up to m. Build the dams: from the 1960s to 1988, 4 dams built in canada.
