Bulletin (New Jersey Geological Survey) 71

Proper water management and growing research efforts in the complex problems of water resources are essential to efforts to preserve an adequate supply of water. The University Seminar on Pollution and Water Resources has undertaken an ambitious plan; to foster meetings, lectures and research in an attempt to focus knowledge from a variety of disciplines onto specific complex problems in water resources. The results of the first steps taken is the following summary of articles and lectures offered by the Seminar in the academic year 1967-68. The published lectures focus on: problems on hydrological data collecting for decision making in water resources; increase of precipitation by artificial weather modification; seeding of clouds; watershed management in the National Forest Area of the West; improvised desalination plan in the Caribbean; water resources planning and hydrologic risk; comprehensive approach to the problems of pollution and water resources; analysis of spitbar development in Sandy Hook, New Jersey; relation between precipitation, flood and windbreak phenomena of the mountains-- a case study from Central Europe