{"id":218,"date":"2019-01-01T19:31:45","date_gmt":"2019-01-01T19:31:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crestahydrologics.com\/?page_id=218"},"modified":"2026-04-18T15:48:58","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T15:48:58","slug":"water-resources-planning-protection","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/crestahydrologics.com\/index.php\/sample-projects\/water-resources-planning-protection\/","title":{"rendered":"Water Resources Planning &#038; Protection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--StartFragment--><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-vivid-cyan-blue-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Sediment Control Practices in the Insular Caribbean<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Don Anderson authored the illustrated, 53-page <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.irf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/SedimentControlPractices_InsularCaribbean.pdf\">Guidelines for Sediment Control Practices in the Insular Caribbean<\/a><\/em>, in association with the Island Resources Foundation. The guidebook, targeted toward site-development practices, was funded and published by the United Nations Environment Program. An independent website (coastalchallenges.com) in 2009 described this as &#8220;one of the most practical and useful coastal management books ever written&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-vivid-cyan-blue-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-4c664ceec8ddd0b9ffba5cb95dabb3a0 wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Herramientas y Estrategias para Proteger Flujos Ambientales en Zonas Secas de los EE.UU.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Vea esta <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=22R74uOuulw\">presentaci\u00f3n de Don Anderson<\/a> para la cuarta sesi\u00f3n del Seminario Internacional &#8220;Gobernanza, Instituciones y Decisiones P\u00fablicas&#8221; [modalidad virtual], 3 de diciembre de 2025, en colaboraci\u00f3n con la <em>Red Mexicana de Cuencas<\/em>. Aqu\u00ed Mr. Anderson discute algunos de los mecan\u00edsmos que se han puesto en pr\u00e1ctica en los EE.UU. para proteger flujos ambientales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-vivid-cyan-blue-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Distinguishing Water Conservation from Water Savings<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Programs aimed at &#8220;conserving&#8221; water in regions of water scarcity can have the counter-intuitive effect of reducing the amount of wet water flowing to rivers and recharging aquifers.  Don Anderson described the importance of understanding water pathways and water balances in river basins before implementing water conservation measures in an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1080\/15715124.2013.806928\">article for the <\/a><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1080\/15715124.2013.806928\">International Journal of River Basin Management<\/a><\/em>.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-vivid-cyan-blue-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Managing Instream Flows<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From 2017 through 2021, Don Anderson collaborated with multiple public, private, and non-profit water interests in seven subbasins of the upper Colorado River in Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming to <a href=\"https:\/\/coloradoriverrecovery.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/19_FY20AR_HydrologySupport_508.pdf\">cooperatively manage water resources for the benefit of endangered fish.<\/a> This included weekly management decisions determining the use of up to 32,000 acre-feet (39 million cubic meters) of storage allocated annually to the Upper Colorado Endangered Fish Recovery Program to sustain flows in the mainstem Colorado and Yampa rivers in western Colorado.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><\/h2>\n\n\n<p><!--EndFragment--><\/p>\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sediment Control Practices in the Insular Caribbean Don Anderson authored the illustrated, 53-page Guidelines for Sediment Control Practices in the Insular Caribbean, in association with the Island Resources Foundation. The guidebook, targeted toward site-development practices, was funded and published by the United Nations Environment Program. An independent website (coastalchallenges.com) in 2009 described this as &#8220;one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":2,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-218","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/crestahydrologics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/crestahydrologics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/crestahydrologics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crestahydrologics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crestahydrologics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"http:\/\/crestahydrologics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":736,"href":"http:\/\/crestahydrologics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/218\/revisions\/736"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crestahydrologics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crestahydrologics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}