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Water law, planning and policy-cases and materials
Journal of Hydrology 11 (1970)442-446; © North-HollandPublishing Co., Amsterdam
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ALLEN V. KNEESE and BLAIR T. BOWER: Managing Water Quality: Economics, Technology, Institutions. Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, for Resources for the Future, Inc. 328 p. $ 8.95. 1968.
This book is a substantial revision and extension of The Economics of Regional Water Quality Management, 1964, by the same authors. Kneese and Bower are, respectively, Director and Associate Director of the Quality of the Environment Program, of Resources for the Future, Inc., Washington, D.C. The new book emphasizes the shortcomings of conventional approaches as means of achieving economically efficient management of water quality. The book is mainly concerned with surface water, as well as groundwater, quality and there are numerous references to the role of ground water in regional management. Ground Water, Vol. 4, No. 2, 1969
JOSEPHL. SAX: Water Law, Planning and Policy - Cases and Materials. A new edition of the Contemporary Legal Education Series of the Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana. 520 p. J. L. Sax is an associate professor of law at the University of Michigan. His book is intended to be a new approach to the teaching of water law. Instead of the usual textbook model of presenting principles of appropriation and riparianism, acquisition and transfer of rights, and Federal-State relations one after the other, this book is built around a series of contemporary issues inwater-resource management. Considerable space and attention is given in providing a factual background for each problem; the relevant legal doctrines emerging later. The inclusion of a factual background to the water-law problems is a manifestation of the author's conviction that legal issues in water resources problems cannot be isolated from economic, technical, and political situations. Therefore, excerpts are inserted from papers in fields such as economics, political science, geography, and hydrogeology. Chapter V, "Ground Water and Other Special Water Sources," begins with "An Introduction to Physical Facts," followed by Charles Robinove's "Ground-Water 442
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443
Studies and Analog Models" (U.S. Geological Circular 468), and excerpts from U.S.G.S. Water-Supply Paper 1800 by Charles McGuinness. The chapter also contains sections on legal regimes governing ground water, groundwater mining, management of ground-water basins, and seepage and spring water. Other chapters cover "Public Planning for Water Use: The NorthwestSouthwest Diversion," "Managing Water Use," "Recreation, Conservation, and Aesthetics," and "Pollution." The bulk of each chapter contains background material rather than legal cases, although over 300 cases are referred to.
Ground Water, Vol. 7, No. 2. 1969 M. S. GARBERand L. E. WOLLITZ:Measuring Underground-Explosion Effect on Water Levels in Surrounding Aquifers. Ground Water, Vol. 7, No. 4. 1969, p. 3. HARRY M. PEEK: Effects of Large-Scale Mining Withdrawals of GroundWater (from the aquifers of the North Carolina Coastal Plain). Ground Water, Vol. 4, No. 4, 1969, p. 12. GRANVILLE G. WYRICK: Methods for Calculating the Cost of Developing Ground-Water Resources in Appalachia. Ground Water, Vol. 7, No. 4. 1969, p. 21. P. MEYBOOM: Some Aspects of the Scientific Communication System in Hydrology. Ground Water, Vol. 7, No. 4. 1969, p. 28. RICHARD W. DAVIS: Ground Water, Gravity and Rift Valleys in Malawi. Ground Water, Vol. 7, No. 2. 1969. RALPH C. HEATH and FRANK W. TRAINER: Introduction to Ground-Water Hydrology. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York. 1968, 283 p., many figs., 11 x 8 inch. RICHARD G. ORCUTT and GILBERT F. COCHRAN: A Reconnaissance of the Technology for Recharging Reclaimed Waste-Water into the Las Vegas Valley Ground- Water Basin, with a Section on Hydrogeology by M.D. Mifflin. University of Nevada, Desert Research Institute, Hydrology and Water Resources Publication 2.
B O O K REVIEWS
ALLEN V. KNEESE and BLAIR T. BOWER: Managing Water Quality: Economics, Technology, Institutions. Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, for Resources for the Future, Inc. 328 p. $ 8.95. 1968.
This book is a substantial revision and extension of The Economics of Regional Water Quality Management, 1964, by the same authors. Kneese and Bower are, respectively, Director and Associate Director of the Quality of the Environment Program, of Resources for the Future, Inc., Washington, D.C. The new book emphasizes the shortcomings of conventional approaches as means of achieving economically efficient management of water quality. The book is mainly concerned with surface water, as well as groundwater, quality and there are numerous references to the role of ground water in regional management. Ground Water, Vol. 4, No. 2, 1969
JOSEPHL. SAX: Water Law, Planning and Policy - Cases and Materials. A new edition of the Contemporary Legal Education Series of the Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana. 520 p. J. L. Sax is an associate professor of law at the University of Michigan. His book is intended to be a new approach to the teaching of water law. Instead of the usual textbook model of presenting principles of appropriation and riparianism, acquisition and transfer of rights, and Federal-State relations one after the other, this book is built around a series of contemporary issues inwater-resource management. Considerable space and attention is given in providing a factual background for each problem; the relevant legal doctrines emerging later. The inclusion of a factual background to the water-law problems is a manifestation of the author's conviction that legal issues in water resources problems cannot be isolated from economic, technical, and political situations. Therefore, excerpts are inserted from papers in fields such as economics, political science, geography, and hydrogeology. Chapter V, "Ground Water and Other Special Water Sources," begins with "An Introduction to Physical Facts," followed by Charles Robinove's "Ground-Water 442
BOOK REVIEWS
443
Studies and Analog Models" (U.S. Geological Circular 468), and excerpts from U.S.G.S. Water-Supply Paper 1800 by Charles McGuinness. The chapter also contains sections on legal regimes governing ground water, groundwater mining, management of ground-water basins, and seepage and spring water. Other chapters cover "Public Planning for Water Use: The NorthwestSouthwest Diversion," "Managing Water Use," "Recreation, Conservation, and Aesthetics," and "Pollution." The bulk of each chapter contains background material rather than legal cases, although over 300 cases are referred to.
Ground Water, Vol. 7, No. 2. 1969 M. S. GARBERand L. E. WOLLITZ:Measuring Underground-Explosion Effect on Water Levels in Surrounding Aquifers. Ground Water, Vol. 7, No. 4. 1969, p. 3. HARRY M. PEEK: Effects of Large-Scale Mining Withdrawals of GroundWater (from the aquifers of the North Carolina Coastal Plain). Ground Water, Vol. 4, No. 4, 1969, p. 12. GRANVILLE G. WYRICK: Methods for Calculating the Cost of Developing Ground-Water Resources in Appalachia. Ground Water, Vol. 7, No. 4. 1969, p. 21. P. MEYBOOM: Some Aspects of the Scientific Communication System in Hydrology. Ground Water, Vol. 7, No. 4. 1969, p. 28. RICHARD W. DAVIS: Ground Water, Gravity and Rift Valleys in Malawi. Ground Water, Vol. 7, No. 2. 1969. RALPH C. HEATH and FRANK W. TRAINER: Introduction to Ground-Water Hydrology. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York. 1968, 283 p., many figs., 11 x 8 inch. RICHARD G. ORCUTT and GILBERT F. COCHRAN: A Reconnaissance of the Technology for Recharging Reclaimed Waste-Water into the Las Vegas Valley Ground- Water Basin, with a Section on Hydrogeology by M.D. Mifflin. University of Nevada, Desert Research Institute, Hydrology and Water Resources Publication 2.