Design of Water-Resource Systems: New Techniques for Relating Economic Objectives, Engineering Analysis, and Government Planning

xviii, 620 pp. The purpose of this book is to improve the methodology of designing water resource systems. The methodology of system design involves four related steps: identifying the objectives of design; translating these objectives into design criteria; using the criteria to devise plans for the development of specific water resource systems that fulfill the criteria in the highest degree; and evaluating the consequences of the plans that have been developed. All of this methodology is defined in this book.