WASC 2000H Lecture 2: Lecture 2 Water Policy
15 Jan 2019
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How do we deal with them: unilateral solution (dictatorship!, acknowledge differences (legitimate ways to bridge them, ie liberal democracy. Problem solving: suggest approaches, may affect, religion, class, ethnicity, gender, language, social diversity complexity and conflict. Watershed: physical sense, landscape connected by shared water system, political sense, a community of residents with a shared social experience. Nationally use of canadian freshwater: thermal electric power, 1. Agricultural, commercial, public water distribution, mining, oil, gas (10%) Watershed as geopolitical drainage usage: 5 great continental drainages of canada go to oceans, hudson"s bay, arctic, pacific, great lakes, gulf of mexico. Physical watershed: human consumption, support for aquatic life, support for forest to fields, kinetic energy, transportation, supports for animals on land, many of these have a conflict of interest. 4 dimensional framework in politics to approach any watershed: up/down stream relations / the water channel, groundwater resource relations (subsurface and surfaces, riparian transect: stream-bank relations, temporal dimension: cumulation and successive development.
