The protection and conservation of water resources: A British perspective - Cook Hadrian F (John Wiley & Sons New York, 1998)
Keywords: Water quality -- Ground water -- Water policy and procedure -- Need for conservation and protection, Water regulations, River and spring diversion, dams and flood alleviation, Agriculture, Ground water development, Industry, Urbanisation and supply of water, Policy -- Water resource availability in Britain -- Flooding , Low flows, Drought, Low rainfall. Climate in Britain, Soils and geology,British Aquifer characteristics, Groundwater and surface water abstraction, British catchments -- Institutions and legislation for resource management -- English law, Rise of water regulation institutions, Scottish dimension, Privatisation in England and Wales, national rivers authority, Ofwat, Drinking water inspectorate, Her Majesty's inspectorate of pollution, Regulation in Scotland, Environment act 1995, SEPA, Supra-national legislation -- Sustaining bulk supply -- Consumption and interference : Anthropogenic influence , Problems and solutions, Aquifer recharge, Low flow , Wetlands, Land drainage on hydrology, Hydrological effects of urbanisation, Flood control and river engineering, Scottish rivers -- Possible solutions : Supply or demand management, Groundwater exploitation, Ground water augmentation schemes, Catchment transfers, Mid-Cambrian transfers, Trent-witham scheme, Ely Ouse-Essex transfers, Kielder reservoir -- Desalination, National water grid, Tidal/estuarine storage, Rainmaking, Demand management, Licensing and licence control, Drought orders, Pricing, Leakage management, Domestic metering, Irrigation demand management , Irrigation delivery and scheduling, Unirrigated soils and water conservation, Water and effluent re-use, Evaluation of supply and demand measures, Public perceptions and water education, Water and effluent re-use, Public perceptions and water education -- Water quality background issues -- Chemical basis of water pollution, Water acidity, Hardness, Reduction and ammonia, Phosphate, pesticides, Solvents, radioactive substances, Biological aspects of water quality, Hydrochemical environment, Agrochemical contamination of catchments, Acidification, Urbanization and water quality -- Environmental issues of water quality and quantity -- East Anglian broadland and Waveney valley, Somerset levels and moors, Afforestation and woodland planting, Contamination of groundwaters in the West Midlands, Soil erosion, Siltation of reservoirs -- Towards, Land-use change and water management, mapping and modelling, Spatial modelling, Hydrological process modelling, Development and problem with modelling, mapping for pollutants -- Agri-environmental policy and water : Nitrate protection zones, Non-specific protection zones for groundwaters, Environmentally sensitive areas, Forest and woodland schemes -- Summery of agri-environmental schemes, Vegetated buffer strips, Water treatment and blending -- Catchment approach : sustainable development, Environmental assessment, Evolution of water standard setting, General quality assessment, Water quality objectives, Trends in river water quality, Catchment management planning -- Future of catchment management of water -- WHO, Soil erosion, Bulk water transfers, water and climate change scenarios