SUBJECT INDEX 



Abandoned valleys, 112, 226 

 Agricultural use of water, 213, 216, 



221 

 Air conditioning, 220-222 

 American doctrine of water rights, 



245 

 Apportionment, under correlative 

 doctrine, 256 

 of interstate waters, 259 

 Appropriation doctrine, 61, 246 

 Aquifers, definition of, An. 

 Areas of perennial water deficiency, 



25 

 Arid and semiarid regions, 25 

 Artesian aquifers, 33 

 Artesian conditions, 33 

 Artesian pressure, 33 



equilibrium after pumping, 101 

 outstanding reductions, 101-123 

 recovery after cessation of pump- 

 ing, 109 

 Artesian water, rising through con- 

 fining beds, 63, 66, 198, 206 

 Artificial recharge, 67, 142 



coordinated with flood control, 188, 



226, 241, 274 

 effect of vegetal cover, 189 

 indiscriminate efforts, 190, 274 

 with reclaimed water, 57 



B 



Basalt aquifers, 89 

 Beneficial use of water, 61 

 Brines, natural, 148 



oil field waste, 149 

 Buried valleys, 112, 146 

 Burning of vegetation, 168 



California doctrine of water rights, 



245 

 Clay, compaction of, 53, 206 



impeding recharge, 49, 106 



movement of water through, 199 

 Clearing of vegetation, 167 

 Common-law doctrine, 243 

 Concentrated draft from wells, 109 



water levels declining, 71, 110-115 



water levels at equilibrium, 116- 

 118 

 Cone of depression, 98 



disappearance of, 109 

 Confined water, 33 

 Conflicting demands for storage, 269 

 Connate water, 44, 270 

 Conservation of renewable resources, 

 279 



conflicts in, 278 



(See also Water conservation) 

 Consumptive use, 215 



by vegetation, 216 

 Consumptive waste, 217 

 Contamination, by agricultural use, 

 58, 148, 199 



by industry, 65, 131, 149 



by mine waters, 204 



by natural processes, 76, 190 



reduced by pumping, 131 



by sewage, 201-203 



by wells, 44, 131 



(See also Salt-water encroachment) 

 Correlative rights, 245 

 Cost of obtaining water, increasing 

 with development, 255 



legal aspects of, 256 



(See also Water cost) 

 Cultivation, 167 



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