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Sustainable yield: the maximum quantity of water calculated over long-term conditions in the basin, including any temporary excess that can be withdrawn over a year without an undesirable result Sustainable groundwater management : the management and use of groundwater that can be maintained without causing an undesirable result.
The Multiple-Use Sustained-Yield Act of 1960 (or MUSYA) (Public Law 86-517) is a federal law passed by the United States Congress on June 12, 1960. This law authorizes and directs the Secretary of Agriculture to develop and administer the renewable resources of timber, range, water, recreation and wildlife on the national forests for multiple use and sustained yield of the products and services.
Sustainable yield is the amount of a resource that humans can harvest without over-harvesting or damaging a potentially renewable resource. [1]In more formal terms, the sustainable yield of natural capital is the ecological yield that can be extracted without reducing the base of capital itself, i.e. the surplus required to maintain ecosystem services at the same or increasing level over time. [2]
Many states, especially in the western United States, claim ownership of groundwater and allocate the resource through an appropriative system just as they would any surface right. Typically water rights are appropriated based on each aquifer's sustainable yield, and once all the rights are granted no further permits will be issued. Some states ...
Best management practices (BMPs) is a term used in the United States and Canada to describe a type of water pollution control. Historically the term has referred to auxiliary pollution controls in the fields of industrial wastewater control and municipal sewage control, while in stormwater management (both urban and rural) and wetland ...
The maximum sustainable yield is usually higher than the optimum sustainable yield and maximum economic yield. MSY is extensively used for fisheries management . Unlike the logistic ( Schaefer ) model, [ 1 ] MSY has been refined in most modern fisheries models and occurs at around 30% of the unexploited population size.
Annual water yield: 2,400,000 acre-feet (3.0 × 10 9 m 3) [1] Land irrigated: 750,000 acres (300,000 ha) Power plant capacity: 2,991.7 MW: Annual generation: 6500 GWh: Annual consumption: 11500 GWh: Constituencies served: Greater Los Angeles Area Greater San Diego Inland Empire San Francisco Bay Area North Bay Santa Clara Valley South Bay ...
United States 1960 postal stamp advocating water conservation. Water conservation aims to sustainably manage the natural resource of fresh water, protect the hydrosphere, and meet current and future human demand. Water conservation makes it possible to avoid water scarcity. It covers all the policies, strategies and activities to reach these aims.