"Water Resources - Present and Future Uses" is a revision of a lecture
delivered to the senior class of the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale
University in 1918. It concerns the subject of water, particularly the
importance of understanding and maintaining water supplies in light of
the First World War and its effects thereon. Frederick Haynes Newell
(1862 - 1932) was the first Director of the United States Reclamation
Service. Other notable works by this author include: "Oil Well Drilling"
(1888), "Agriculture by Irrigation" (1894), and "Hydrography of the Arid
Regions" (1891). Contents include: "Research", "What is
Reconstruction?", "Conservation", "Economics", "Engineering Relations",
"Broader Relation", "Water in General", "What is Water?", "Uses of
Water", "Where Water is Found", "Science Involved", "Meteorology",
"Hydrography and Hydrology", "Geography, Geology, and Physiography",
etc. Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce
and expensive. We are republishing this volume now in an affordable,
modern, high-quality edition complete with the original text and
artwork.