@inproceedings{e34101e08ffc458c9c8a8fbdff562363,
title = "Determination of water stress indices as a function of ecological flows",
abstract = "Water stress indices provide a measure of streamflow depletion caused by high rates of withdrawal in relation to renewable supply. In this work, we calculate water stress indices for sub-watersheds in the Kalamazoo River watershed, Michigan, based on local or regionally derived withdrawals, consumptive use coefficients, and stream discharges. We demonstrate the impacts of uncertainty in consumptive use coefficients. We assess the impacts of temporal scale by calculating indices on an average annual basis and during months when withdrawals are highest and flows are lowest. We compare calculated stress indices to location-specific, ecologically-based, critical flow depletions. Calculated flow depletions were found to exceed the critical depletions in a significant number of the HUC-12 watersheds.",
author = "Mayer, \{A. S.\} and Watkins, \{D. W.\} and Mirchi, \{A. S.\} and R. Gyawali and Watson, \{K. A.\}",
year = "2012",
doi = "10.1061/9780784412312.342",
language = "English",
isbn = "9780784412312",
series = "World Environmental and Water Resources Congress 2012: Crossing Boundaries, Proceedings of the 2012 Congress",
publisher = "American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)",
pages = "3388--3396",
booktitle = "World Environmental and Water Resources Congress 2012",
address = "United States",
note = "World Environmental and Water Resources Congress 2012: Crossing Boundaries ; Conference date: 20-05-2012 Through 24-05-2012",
}