Watershed: Exploring a New Water Ethic for the New West
This film explores the issues facing the Colorado River Basin due to increased pressure from population growth, and the effect on an already decreasing water supply.
This film explores the issues facing the Colorado River Basin due to increased pressure from population growth, and the effect on an already decreasing water supply.
This film examines attempts by communities and experts around the world to protect their water resources in the face of global warming, pollution, and political conflict.
This film examines how Mexico City—home to 22 million people—is trying to become water sustainable.
This film examines the role of women in finding water in India, and how pollution impacts their communities.
Patagonia Rising gives voice to the Gauchos, a frontier people dependent on the Baker and Pascua river systems, who are caught in the struggle between Chile’s pro-dam business sector, clean energy proponents and the country’s rising energy demand.
The premises of water allocation legislation came under harsh scrutiny in the early 2000s as severe drought plagued the American Southwest.
The author works on the notion of “watershed encounter” as a diverging point in history to analyze which watershed encounters shaped the Chesapeake Bay region. He argues that current restoration efforts, far from solving the current issues, only exacerbate them.
This article examines early twentieth-century China’s top-down scheme of managing rivers based on watershed.
In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, Nancy Langston is interviewed on her book, Climate Ghosts: Migratory Species in the Anthropocene.
Indigenous groups in Nayarit, Mexico, reaffirmed their sacred environmental sites through social movement.