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Flooding, drought, forever chemicals: these dire stories are symptoms of a global water system under serious stress. Creating effective water management practices requires a wholistic understanding of water management in the twenty-first century.
In Water Management: Prioritizing Justice and Sustainability (Publication date: June 27, 2024; Island Press), Shimon C. Anisfeld, Senior Lecturer II and Research Scientist at the Yale School of the Environment, provides students, professionals, and policy makers with the critical knowledge base for understanding and managing complex water problems. Anisfeld explores the entire gamut of water issues, from dams to desalination, flooding to famine, prior appropriation to pumped storage, and sanitation to stormwater.
Water Management provides readers with vital information about how water systems function, the problems facing them, and the tools available to increase their resilience. In contrast to many other books on water management, Anisfeld approaches water management challenges through a multi-disciplinary perspective, including fields such as hydrology, climate science, ecology, and engineering, as well as law, economics, history, and environmental justice.
The author has created a online suite of materials to help teach the concepts from the book. Available resources on the website include up-to-date versions of every table and figure in the book, along with many additional case studies and deeper dives.
