EARTHSC 2WW3 Chapter 7: Water Texbook notes 2
24 Mar 2017
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Laws meant to promote: economic development, public health, recent times: environmental protection, evolved from land ownership to private property right, differences in laws between regions, humid: sharing, arid: priority-based, ancient allocation laws: Chapter 7- water, economics and war: know the earliest laws and what they did- allocation laws, allocations laws, code of hammurabi (babylonia ca 1750 bce): the earliest major code of law, pa(cid:396)se p(cid:396)e(cid:272)ipitatio(cid:374) (cid:396)e(cid:395)ui(cid:396)ed (cid:272)a(cid:396)eful (cid:272)o(cid:374)t(cid:396)ol o(cid:374) (cid:449)ate(cid:396) Code required payment to neighbours of lost crop. Control over: flow regulation, water use and development, pollution control, federal- navigation and fisheries, understand the issues surrounding water conflicts in the middle east (esp. Turkey, syria, iraq: water use management: an extremely contentious issue, current political borders disregard hydrologic boundaries, freshwater resources are very unevenly distributed, a resource under stress: total water use in the region has increased nearly. This long river flows through 10 countries, many of which want to use its waters for irrigation and hydropower.
