Municipal water managers need to know if water will be reliably available from watersheds. Civil engineers need to calculate stream discharge to construct bridges to withstand 100-year floods. A hypothesis proposed in 1997 by Gordon Grant, a research hydrologist with the USDA Forest Service Pacific Northwest Research Station, underlies a method for getting this information from rivers without gauge networks or long-term flow data. Since then, laboratory experiments and field measurements have validated the hypothesis to the degree that it may now be considered a theory.
Year 2020 Volume 232
Writings by Andrea Watts 
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