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  <dc:contributor>Angel Roman-Mas</dc:contributor>
  <dc:contributor>Roger W. Lee</dc:contributor>
  <dc:contributor>Ferdinand Quinones</dc:contributor>
  <dc:contributor>A.V. Sanchez</dc:contributor>
  <dc:contributor>H. Smith</dc:contributor>
  <dc:creator>K. Kelly Ellins</dc:creator>
  <dc:date>1986</dc:date>
  <dc:description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class="EXLDetailsDisplayVal"&gt;&lt;span class="searchword"&gt;Water&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;has become a critical commodity in the&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="searchword"&gt;Caribbean&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;Region. In spite of a relative abundance of rainfall even on the smaller&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="searchword"&gt;islands&lt;/span&gt;, the region is faced with severe seasonal shortages as well as increasing&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="searchword"&gt;water&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;quality problems. The supply of the&lt;span class="searchword"&gt;water&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;needs in the area will become even more critical as economic development accelerates and the population continues to increase. The development of the necessary infrastructure to supply the&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="searchword"&gt;water&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;needs of the next 30 years will require large capital investments. Perhaps even more important, it will require training of scientists and technicians in the investigation and management of the limited&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="searchword"&gt;water&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="searchword"&gt;resources&lt;/span&gt;. The lack of trained personnel could be the most important factor in the solution of the&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="searchword"&gt;water&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="searchword"&gt;resources&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;problems in the region. The principal objectives of this '&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="searchword"&gt;Third&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="searchword"&gt;Caribbean&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="searchword"&gt;Islands&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="searchword"&gt;Water&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="searchword"&gt;Resources&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="searchword"&gt;Congress&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;', were to provide a focus for the transfer of technology on hydrology and&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="searchword"&gt;water&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="searchword"&gt;resources&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;investigations in the region. The severe quality problems that affect water supplies in the U.S. Virgin Islands are the subject of two papers. The importance of a reliable data base on water use in small islands is considered in a paper on water use in St. Croix. Advanced techniques are discussed on how to measure groundwater contributions to runoff, use of geochemical techniques for interpretation of water quality characteristics, use of dye tracers in karst areas, simulation of small island 's aquifers, and use of borehole geophysical tools to estimate moisture. The contamination of groundwater resources is discussed in several papers focusing on monitoring, sludge management, and environmental assessment. (See W89-04666 thru W89-04682) (Lantz-PTT)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</dc:description>
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  <dc:language>en</dc:language>
  <dc:publisher>Puerto Rico Water Resources Association</dc:publisher>
  <dc:title>Estimating ground-water influx to a portion of the Rio Grande de Manati River basin in Puerto Rico through the measurement of 222Rn</dc:title>
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