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Drought management planning is the key to keeping customers supplied with water through dry times. Drought Management Handbook guides you in creating a successful drought management plan for your community's water supply.

This handbook leads you step-by-step through the drought planning process. You'll learn how to assess supply and demand, define drought indicators, prioritize water uses, and decide proper conservation measures to implement as determined by the severity of the predicted water shortage.

You'll find out how to get the plan adopted, how to create public information and education programs, and how to enforce drought restrictions. The book includes a model drought management plan that will help keep you on track.

"The guide is clearly written and well-organized . . . an excellent introduction to managers, boards, elected officials, as well as to students in environment-related studies to see the issues from a planning point of view."
Chip Green, Professor, Division of Natural Sciences and Engineering, University of South Carolina at Spartanburg, as reviewed in E-Streams, Vol. 7, No. 4 - April 2004.