The Severe Sustained Drought Study
Introduction
The Severe Sustained Drought Study was an interdisciplinary study of the characteristics and impacts of drought in the arid southwestern portion of the United States, and measures that might be taken to mitigate or respond to those impacts. The Project produced thirteen professional papers published in a special edition of the Water Resources Bulletin in October, 1995.
The papers collected in that special issue, and reproduced here, document the second phase of an effort to anticipate the likely hydrologic, environmental, economic, and social impacts of a severe, multi-year drought in the southwestern United States and to assess alternative policy responses to such a drought.