ESPM 50AC Chapter 14: FL'16-36 - Plumbing the Golden State 2.2 - outline
18 Nov 2016
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Lecture 36 california water plumbing the golden state 2. Era of conflict (1970s - present) societal shift in boundaries. Shift in social consciousness about value of water as environmental resource. Context: environmental movement, changing values, federal environmental legislation: nepa, cwa, etc, state environmental legislation: ceqa, etc, key court decisions, economy: declining importance of agriculture. Shift from mining to agricutlrue to higher technology/industries/aeronautical industry. Federal and state environmental legislation to empower stater water resources control board to enforce allocation of water to envrionemntal uses. Number of key political campaigns and court decision. End of development of water on grand scale. Not a lot of new authorized projects after this time. Federal and state dropping out of a lot of developing infrastructure. All with different interests, difficult to effect useful changes. Lots of policies designed for agriculture and urban users with no regard for environment. Successful in changing public opinion about this type of project (although did not stop this.
