1. 50 Years of History at the Utah Water Research Laboratory
Mac McKee, Director Utah Water Research Laboratory
2. An economically, politically, and socially viable society
requires a dependable water supply, and it typically must be able
to successfully manage a number of other simultaneous water-related
problems. McKees 5th Axiom of Water Resources Engineering
3. Jericho
4. Reqqim (Petra)
5. Reqqim (Petra)
6. Reqqim (Petra)
7. Many of these same things happened in antiquity at other
locations.
8. Development of hydraulic cultures: Unpredictable water
supply Domesticated crops and animals Trade opportunities
9. Lessons from history.
10. Monitoring Modeling Management
11. M o n i t o r i n g M o d e l i n g M a n a g e m e n t
Failure in:
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Failure in: (Walsh 1980; Cary et al. 1980)
13. M o n i t o r i n g M o d e l i n g M a n a g e m e n
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14. Utah water history.
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Library)
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Library)
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18. The Utah Water Research Laboratory.
19. What have we been up to?
20. M o n i t o r i n g M o d e l i n g M a n a g e m e n t If
you dont measure it, you cant manage it. McKees 2th Axiom of Water
Resources Engineering
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48. Challenges for Utahs water future
49. CHALLENGE: Emerging Contaminants CHALLENGE: Nano-particles
in the Environment CHALLENGE: Environmental Services And there are
many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many,
many, many, many, many, many, many, many, others.
50. CHALLENGE: Climate Change
51. CHALLENGE: Climate Change
52. Reservoir and water system operational changes?
QUESTION:
53. Impacts on environmental systems? QUESTION:
54. New storage/import systems vs. intensive management/con
servation? QUESTION:
55. How to best handle uncertainty? QUESTION: Yellowstone River
Forecast, 12 months ahead
56. Water rights implications vs. political expediency?
QUESTION:
57. It is easy to make the desert bloom if you can do it with
water you have stolen from someone else. McKees 1st Axiom of Water
Resources Engineering