Illinois Institute of Natural Resources project list : January 1, 1981.

Includes index.

Implications of expanding coal production for Illinois' transportation systems /

"March, 1981."

Inventory of public surface [water] supply : system deficiencies.

Bibliography: leaf 5.

Meredosia Levee Project : Village of Meredosia, Morgan County, Illinois : small projects program.

"September, 1993."

Muncie Flood Control Project : village of Muncie, Vermilion County, Illinois : small projects program.

"DOWR/SPR/95-001."

Mouth of the Mahomet Regional Groundwater Model, Imperial Valley Region of Mason, Tazewell, and Logan Counties, Illinois /

"December 20, 1994."

Report on Lake Decatur dredging : city of Decatur, Macon County, Illinois.

"DOWR/SES/91-002."

Review of the City of Lake Forest, final report for the 1994 Beach and Nearshore Monitoring Program, Forest Park Beach, Lake Forest, Illinois /

"Final Report for IDOT Project No.: WR-09118/SRA-190"

Strategic planning study for flood control : Village of Lyons, Cech Terrace Subdivision, Cook County, Illinois.

"DOWR/SPS/90-003."

Strategic planning study for flood control : Crystal Creek, Villages of Franklin Park & Schiller Park, Illinois, Cook County.

"DOWR/SPS/91-001."

Village of Holiday Hills flood damage reduction project : McHenry County, Illinois.

"This project is being done under the authority given by the Flood Control Act of 1945 (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1989, ch. 19, par. 126a et seq.)--leaf 1.

Cost effectiveness of the U.S. Geological Survey's stream-gaging program in Illinois /

Tables.

The ethics of regional water planning : planning and management of water resources in a growth region

Abstract Providing water infrastructure in times of accelerating climate change presents interesting new problems. Expanding demands must be met or managed in contexts of increasingly constrained sources of supply, raising ethical questions of equity and participation. Loss of agricultural land and natural habitats, the coastal impacts of desalination plants and concerns over re-use of waste water must be weighed with demand management issues of water rationing, pricing mechanisms and inducing behaviour change. This case study examines how these factors impact on infrastructure planning in South East Queensland, Australia: a region with one of the developed world’s most rapidly growing populations, which has recently experienced the most severe drought in its recorded history. Proposals to match forecast demands and potential supplies for water over a 20 year period are reviewed by applying ethical principles to evaluate practical plans to meet the water needs of the region’s activities and settlements.

The Law and Governance of Water Resources : The Challenge of Sustainability

To achieve the sustainable use and development of water resources is a daunting challenge for both the global and local communities. It requires commitments by all groups within the international, national and local communities from their own particular, possibly conflicting, perspectives. Without a set of coherent legal arrangements designed to ensure effective governance of water resources, their sustainable use and development are unlikely to be achieved. This study looks at how the legal arrangements for managing water resources have evolved across the continents over hundreds of years; their relevance for contemporary society; how the norms of current international and national legal regimes are responding; and, most importantly, how legal rights and duties should be structured so as to achieve sustainability in the future.

Assessing resilience of water resources systems under the impacts of climate change

This paper presents an approach to assess the resilience of a water supply system under the impacts of climate change. Changes to climate characteristics such as rainfall, evapotranspiration and temperature can result in changes to the global hydrological cycle and thereby adversely impact on the ability of water supply systems to meet service standards in the future. Changes to the frequency and characteristics of floods and droughts as well as the quality of water provided by groundwater and surface water resources are the other consequences of climate change that will affect water supply system functionality. The extent and significance of these changes underline the necessity for assessing the future functionality of water supply systems under the impacts of climate change. Resilience can be a tool for assessing the ability of a water supply system to meet service standards under the future climate conditions. The study approach is based on defining resilience as the ability of a system to absorb pressure without going into failure state as well as its ability to achieve an acceptable level of function quickly after failure. In order to present this definition in the form of a mathematical function, a surrogate measure of resilience has been proposed in this paper. In addition, a step-by-step approach to estimate resilience of water storage reservoirs is presented. This approach will enable a comprehensive understanding of the functioning of a water storage reservoir under future climate scenarios and can also be a robust tool to predict future challenges faced by water supply systems under the consequence of climate change.