Water availability and use pilot : A multiscale assessment in the U.S. Great Lakes Basin / By Howard W. Reeves.

Background and major issues ; Regional analysis; Subregional analyses ; Lake Michigan Basin groundwater-flow model ; Estimation of streamflows; Water withdrawals, return flows, and consumption; Local analyses ; Groundwater/surface-water interaction ; Assessment of climate-change effects; Assessment of uncertainty of flow, water-level, and base-flow reduction estimates ; Challenges and lessons learned ; Introduction ; Purpose and scope ; Previous studies ; Approach to the pilot ; Great lakes Basin water-availability issues ; Characteristics of the Great Lakes Basin; Regional water availability analysis for the U.S. Great Lakes Basin ; Predevelopment conditions ; Stocks (storage) ; Flows and processes ; Postdevelopment conditions ; Surface-water diversions into and out of the Great Lakes Basin ; Regional water withdrawals and water use ; Regional water budgets through time; Regional indicators ; Summary and importance of regional analysis ; Need for subregional and local analyses ; Subregional water-availability analysis within the U.S. Great Lakes Basin ; Groundwater; Groundwater-flow model ; Groundwater budget; Groundwater-availability summary indicators ; Groundwater-flow model and groundwater availability; Surface water ; Water withdrawals and water use ; Local-scale water availability analysis within the U.S. Great Lakes Basin ; Inset groundwater-flow model integrating groundwater and surface-water availability ; Groundwater/surface-water interaction; Response to climate change ; Monitoring and network analysis ; Example bootstrap analysis for surface-water monitoring network; Example model-uncertainty analysis using the local groundwater-flow model ; Summary of pilot study; Challenges for future water-availability studies.

Includes bibliogr. references (p. 94-102)