East Central Illinois Water Supply Planning Committee (RWSPC)

Reading List-- reading recommended by Committee members & the webmaster

• Water Withdrawals in Illinois, 2011, ISWS Circular 186, 48 pages
• Estimated Use of Water in the United States in 2010, USGS Circular 1405, 56 pages, Fact sheet, 2 pages
• The Drought of 2012-- read the report from the Illinois Drought Response Task Force (Mar 2013, 7.9 MB)
• Drought 2012 newsletters: July 2012 (revised 7/5/12) & Sept 2012: read more about drought and what you can do
• ISWS report: Meeting East-Central Illinois Water Needs to 2050: Potential Impacts on the Mahomet Aquifer and Surface Reservoirs by George Roadcap, Vern Knapp, Al Wehrmann, Dave Larson
• Drought Preparedness and Response Plan (released Oct 12, 2011)
• Illinois Economic Recovery Commission's Report to Gov Quinn. Water resources planning is featured on p. 10 & 69-70.
• The Water Cycle and Water Budgets in Illinois: A Framework for Drought and Water-Supply Planning by Winstanley et al. 2006
  (6.7 MB, added Nov 8, 2010)
• News-Gazette editorial by D. Winstanley (added Sept 13, 2009)
• RWSPC status and future direction
  Al Wehrmann reviews the status and discusses the future for both planning committees (21 KB, added Nov 11, 2008)
  
  
• Water 2010: A "Near Sighted" Program of Water Resource Management Improvements for the Western United States
  White paper describing the short-term measures water planners in California may take to improve water resources management. (362 KB, added Dec 2, 2008)
  
  
• Global Stressors on Water Quality and Quantity
  Research paper describing the nonsustainable use of the globe's available water resources. (3.7 MB, added July 22, 2008)
  
  
• National Water Program Strategy: Response to Climate Change
  USEPA's discussion of potential effects of climate change on drinking water supplies and watersheds (564 KB, added July 8, 2008)
  
  
• Jack Wittman's white paper
  presented at Beyond Showerheads and Sprinklers: Water Governance Solutions for Illinois, May 16, 2008 (added May 25, 2008)
  
  
• National Research Council's report on biofuels effect on water resources (added Mar 4, 2008)
  
  
• 3-Dimensional Geologic Maps of Quaternary Sediments in East-Central Illinois (added Jan 3, 2008)
  Geologic mapping of the Mahomet aquifer and related sediments by David R. Soller, Susan D. Price, John P. Kempton, and Richard C. Berg, USGS Geologic Investigations Series Map I-2669
  
  
• A Strategy for Federal Science and Technology to Support Water Availability and Quality in the United States (3.1 MB, added Oct 29, 2007)
  Federal strategy for funding water resources research.
  
  
• Texas Water Development Board 2007 Water Plan (added Oct 29, 2007)
  An excellent example of a statewide water resources plan.
  
  
• USGS Circular 1139: Ground Water and Surface Water-- A Single Resource (added Nov 9, 2007)
  Primer on gw-sw interactions
  
  
• USGS Circular 1186: Sustainability of Ground-Water Resources (added Nov 9, 2007)
  Primer on gw sustainability
  
  
• USGS Circular 1217: Ground-Water-Level Monitoring and the Importance of Long-Term Water-Level Data (added Nov 9, 2007)
  Discusses value of & methods for monitoring gw