Inter-Basin Water Transfer : Case Studies from Australia, United States, Canada, China and India (Paperback)

Foreword; Overview and scope; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Part I. The Challenges: 1. World population and pressures on land, water and food resources; 2. Issues in inter-basin water transfer; Part II. Inter-basin Water Transfer in Australia: 3. Land and water resources of Australia; 4. The Snowy Mountains hydro-electric scheme; 5. Inter-basin water transfer from coastal basins of New South Wales; 6. The Bradfield and Reid Schemes in Queensland; 7. Three schemes for flooding Lake Eyre; 8. The Goldfields pipeline scheme of Western Australia; 9. Supplying Perth, Western Australia with water: the Kimberley pipeline scheme; 10. Other schemes in Australia; Part III. Inter-basin Water Transfer in Other Selected Countries: 11. Inter-basin water transfer in the United States of America; 12. Inter-basin water transfer in Canada; 13. Inter-basin water transfer in China; 14. India: the National River-Linking Project; 15. Inter-basin water transfer, successes, failures and the future; Part IV. Appendices: A. Some of the Australian pioneers of inter-basin water transfer; B. Construction timetable of the Snowy Mountains Hydro-electric Scheme; C. Details of diversion schemes from the Clarence River Basin; D. Chronological table of the most important events in the Goldfields Pipeline Scheme, Western Australia; E. Flooding of the Sahara depressions; F. The Ord River Irrigation Scheme; G. The West Kimberley Irrigation Scheme; H. Some other water transfer schemes in Australia; I. Selected technical features of the Central Valley Project in California; J. Selected technical features of the State Water Project in California; K. Selected characteristics of some of the completed or proposed inter-basin water transfer projects in Australia, United States, Canada, China and India, in chronological order; Glossary; Index.