How to Effectively Monitor SD-WAN and SASE Environments with ThousandEyes
Managing Water Resources in the Colorado River Basin
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2. Natural resource
Canning Factory
Uzbekistan
Amu Darya
Murray Darling
Lake Victoria
Fishing
communities
Water supply
Economic growth
Water Conflict
Drinking water
Farmers
Aral Sea
Cotton
Aquifer
Kenya
Ganges
Colorado
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4. Learning Objectives
• To understand how the supply of water is a
Geopolitical issue, by studying the Colorado River
• To understand who are the winners and losers of
these treaties
5. Water Geopolitics & Sharing Water
• Turn to p49 to find out more about
Hydropolitics.
• The Helsinki Rules assert the rights of all
bordering nations to an equitable share in the
water resources.
6. Coke in India
• Read the Coca-Cola article and then watch the DVD
• Who are the winners and losers?
Winners? Losers?
7. Why will conflict arise
here ?
Hoover Dam
Phoenix – 1.5
million
residents
7 states covered :
Wyoming / Colorado
New Mexico / Arizona
California / Nevada
UtahLas Vegas 1.8
million
Mojave Desert
Salt water :
Pacific Ocean and gulf of
California
Colorado
1 of the bread basket
states
Glen Canyon Dam
8. History of the Colorado Basin
• Colorado Compact 1922, allocated the water rights between the
different states
• 1920’s ‘law of the River’ divided the river into the Upper basin
states, who had responsibility to supply the lower states
• Over time new treaties have been signed and Mexico has also been
involved
• Now there is a ‘giant plumbing system’, with more than 10 major
dams to give water to over 30 million people
• Lots of the treaties were established in the 1920’s, since then
population, industry and climate here have all changed
9. DRAMA!
• You need to
assumer the roles
and two judges
will decide how
best to decide the
90% of the
Colorado available
to you all. Your
case needs to be
convincing.
Farmers
City Dwellers
Environmentalist
and recreationists
Indigenous Groups
Mexican People
US federal
Government
Judges
