SOCECOL E8 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Mendota, California, Cochabamba Water War, World Health Organization

• School: UC-Irvine
• Department: Social Ecology
• Course: SOCECOL E8
• Professor: John M.Whiteley

Document Summary

Tule river: as you can see, there isn"t one. : the water has been slowly disappearing, and we don"t know when it"s coming back. No surface water means that the wells are drying out as well. Two different worlds: a family on one side, who ran out of water, a golf course with sprinklers constantly going on. Is china"s yellow river an example of treason of the state: yes. Is china"s yellow river an example of disastrous values in diamond"s framework: yes. China was late to adopt environmental values because they were seen as alien, western values. Is china"s yellow river an example of the problem being beyond the capacity of china to solve it, to use diamond"s framework: yes. The struggle for access to potable water is at the nexus of the larger battle between states, multinational corporations, international financial institutions, and organized groups of citizens in latin america.