This looks like a great asset to planners and others. The following is from the press release.
The Office of Ground Water is pleased to announce publication of U.S. Geological Survey Circular 1308 – “Water Budgets: Foundations for Effective Water-Resources and Environmental Management” by Richard W. Healy, Thomas C. Winter, James W. LaBaugh, and O. Lehn Franke. The Circular is available online here.
Through this Circular, the USGS seeks to broaden awareness and understanding of water budgets and the hydrologic cycle so as to promote wise use and management of water.
The Circular illustrates the importance of water budgets using examples representing a variety of geographic areas and water-resources issues. Uncertainties that exist in water budgets are presented to provide the public and decisionmakers with an appreciation of the relative importance of those uncertainties in evaluating how much water may be available for human and environmental needs.
I can't recall if I've ever seen a USGS publication with quotes about water from non-scientific sources (John Updike, Kahlil Gibran, et al.). The times they are indeed a-changin'! Consider the following:
"Rain is grace; rain is the sky condescending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life." -- John Updike
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