"Completely revised and updated, Conservation of Water and Related Land Resources, Third Edition continues to provide an integrated and balanced examination of all the major aspects of water and related resources management. It reviews events that have helped shape our current management situations, thereby pointing the way for future action and enabling lay citizens, practicing professionals, and policy-makers to play an effective role in the government-mandated decisions about population, urban sprawl, increased water demands, and climate change."--BOOK JACKET