ESPM 50AC Lecture Notes - Lecture 33: Prior-Appropriation Water Rights, Point Source Pollution, Southern California

• School: Berkeley
• Department: Environmental Science, Policy, And Management
• Course: ESPM 50AC
• Professor: Spreyer Kurt

Document Summary

Lecture 35 california water plumbing the golden state 1. Decentralized and often fragmented nature of water decision making. Water: essential natural resource upon which the state"s economy depends on in many ways. How to get drinking water to southern ca. Are we going to run out of water in various user groups. Underlying this, during the hyrdaulic era water diversion, fine if no concern for environment the state delta. If we don"t come to some sort of conclusion/reconciliation, we have problems in the. Something that we might not always think about. Landscape: very dry, until its not, until very very wet. Water management infrastructure based upon system of values to supply water to cities: But by 1970s and 80s, paradigm shift in values. System that doesn"t meet the needs or reflect the deeply held values for many people in: state water rights, usufruct rights, riparian doctrine. Those who hold title to land along water courses.