The crisis along the Colorado River is coming to a head as seven state negotiators fail to deliver an agreement on how to manage it over the next 20 years.

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/28375563

A host of powerful interests want to take more out of the system rather than prepare for drier times," the authors wrote, adding that “human intransigence” is a bigger threat to the river than climate change.

To be fair the latter is caised by the forner so it’s all human intransigence

  • Fisherman75@slrpnk.net
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    4 months ago

    I just took a course on Coursera on hydrology. I’m surprised by how international it gets. They’re engaged in building hydrological systems in Indochina as if it was all one global de facto government making decisions.

    Bioregionalism offers some interesting perspectives on hydrology issues. I still consider myself a student of it. It would mean conforming jurisdictional structures to landforms and ecological reality keeping the core operations local.

    Sorry if this sounds unrelated.