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River Basin Simulation: An Interactive Engineering-Economic Approach to Operational Policy Evaluation*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 April 2015

Clyde Kiker
Clyde Kiker*
Affiliation:
University of Florida
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Traditionally man has used water for domestic needs, livestock, crop production and navigation; now he is also concerned with anesthetics, recreation, industrial production, waste disposal, power generation and aquatic ecological systems. He finds many of these uses incompatible and in conflict.

Florida is encountering similar conflicts and in many ways is typical of other humid eastern states. The situation is especially dramatic because of extreme oscillations in rainfall — torrential tropical storms to droughts lasting many months. Water management in Florida has been primarily for flood protection. More recently, the need for multi-purpose water management to increase usage benefits while decreasing potential damage from quantity extremes, has been recognized. Legislation, the Florida Water Resources Act of 1972 being foremost, has been enacted to create a governmental framework in which water problems can be addressed.

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Research Article
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Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics , Volume 9 , Issue 2 , December 1977 , pp. 57 - 66
Copyright
Copyright © Southern Agricultural Economics Association 1977

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Florida Agricultural Experiment Station Journal Series No. 753. This publication was supported in part by Florida Water Resources Research Center Project No. B-007-FLA. The project was funded by the Office of Water Resources Research, U.S. Department of Interior and the Central and Southern Florida Flood Control District.

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