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Louisville, Kentucky

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GEOS 570

Water Resource Management

Water resources form a critical component of any socioeconomic or environmental system. This course provides an analysis of water resource issues impacting these systems including flood and drought hazards, surface and groundwater quantity/quality issues, and energy development. Water legislation and policy aspects are further integrated with these issues at various spatial scales, including case studies from within the US and across international boundaries that lead to conflict. At the outcome of this course students will develop a basic water resource management plan for a watershed in Kentucky

Units: 3.0

Prerequisites:
GEOG 558 - Introduction to Geographic Information Systems