Water Supply Outlook And Federal State Private Cooperative Snow Surveys For Nevada As Of Mar 1 1964 Classic Reprint

Download or read book Water Supply Outlook and Federal-State-Private Cooperative Snow Surveys for Nevada as of Mar. 1, 1964 (Classic Reprint) written by United States Soil Conservation Service and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-05-03 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Water Supply Outlook and Federal-State-Private Cooperative Snow Surveys for Nevada as of Mar. 1, 1964 The climate of the cultivated and populated areas of the West is characterized by relatively dry summer months. Such precipitation as occurs falls mostly in the winter and early spring months when it is of little immediate benefit to growing crops. Most of this precipitation falls as mountain snow which stays on the ground for months, melting later to sustain streamflow during the period of greatest demand during late spring and summer. Thus, nature provides in mountain snow an imposing water storage facility. The amount of water stored in mountain snow varies from place to place as well as from year to year and accordingly, so does the runoff of the streams. The best seasonal management of variable western water supplies results from advance estimates of the streamflow. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.