This appendix is one of a series of appendixes presenting water data and information for the Lower Mississippi Region Comprehensive Study. Its purpose is threefold: to quantify 1970 water withdrawals for municipal and industrial use, for thermoelectric power production and for rural domestic use in the Lower Mississippi Region, to project the quantified withdrawals to 1980, 2000, and 2020 under the study's long-term objectives, National Income and Regional Development and to determine probable water-shortage areas in the region from a municipal, industrial, and thermoelectric power standpoint, and suggest, in general, possible methods of relief. In this appendix, water withdrawals from ground and from surface sources, fresh and brackish, have been quantified and projected by water resource planning areas (WRPA's) and subareas, for the 50-year period of study from 1970 to 2020.

The problem of where to store waste has grabbed a lot of headlines, but people have been slow to realize that the environmental damage caused by storage sites is an even greater menace. This book makes the danger clear, as Joel Goldsteen offers the first comprehensive look at the selection and environmental impact of municipal and petrochemical waste storage sites along the Texas and Louisiana coasts. Goldsteen has distilled a large landfill-worth of data into a highly readable account of the creation and regulation of waste disposal sites, the health issues that surround them, and the human and natural factors that affect how safe or dangerous they become. Chapters that describe industrial development along the Gulf Coast and the concurrent challenges of wastewater treatment, solid waste management, and hazardous waste control are followed by in-depth descriptions of nine Texas and four Louisiana sites, all representative of problems far beyond the Texas-Louisiana coast.