Water Resources - Present and Future Uses

Water Resources - Present and Future Uses is a revision of a lecture delivered to the senior class of the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale University in 1918. It concerns the subject of water, particularly the importance of understanding and maintaining water supplies in light of the First World War and its effects thereon. Frederick Haynes Newell (1862 - 1932) was the first Director of the United States Reclamation Service. Other notable works by this author include: Oil Well Drilling (1888), Agriculture by Irrigation (1894), and Hydrography of the Arid Regions (1891). Contents include: Research, What is Reconstruction?, Conservation, Economics, Engineering Relations, Broader Relation, Water in General, What is Water?, Uses of Water, Where Water is Found, Science Involved, Meteorology, Hydrography and Hydrology, Geography, Geology, and Physiography, etc. Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. We are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with the original text and artwork.