Midterm Study Guide

Geography 4501   Spring 2008

 

Midterm is Wednesday March 5th

 

 

  • The physical attributes of water resources (QQTD)

 

  • The social attributes of water management
      • Both of the following discussed social issues related to water management:
        • Mark Squillace: Natural Resource Law Center – CU Law School
        • Bob Crifasi: City of Boulder Open Space & Mt Parks

 

  • Map:  major rivers, cities, and basins

 

  • Timeline: the relative position of events
      • JW Powell’s report
      • B.of Rec ‘born’
      • CO River Compact
      • Clean Water Act
      • Endangered Species Act
      • CA Water System

 

  • Suzanne Anderson: NOAA
    • What are some of the ways researchers (particularly in the American West) are approching the examination water processes and in what ways are their data and findings incorporated (or not) in water management policy?
    • Critical zone research: why is it important?

 

  • Water Management in the 21st Century:  Gleick
    • Policies towards supply, demand, efficiency, and reallocation of resources to meet future needs. 
    • The incorporation of ecological values in planning and water resource management.

 

  • History of Societies & Water Management: Worster
    • Water and power (Irrigation, control, and scale)
    • Hydraulic societies: 3 types
    • The evolution of attitudes towards water resources in the American West
    • Federal investment in the west
    • California as a state water power
    • Big organizations

 

  • Mark Squillace: Natural Resource Law Center – CU Law School
    • The nature of the water management issues facing Colorado today and in the future.
        • What legal issues do you think will be particulalry important in Colorado over the course of your careers?
    • How has Colorado water law evolved (or not evolved) to yield the system(s) in place today?
        • Prior appropriation
        • Beneficial use
        • Eastern Law
        • Good & Bad of Prior Approp system

 

  • Water Governance:  Wescoat & White
    • The local nature of decisions concerning water resources including:
      • Participants / Rights
      • Economic value
      • Environmental concerns
      • Range of choices
    • Integrated management designs.

 

  • Western Water Commission:  Fort
      • Federal agencies and integration                       
      • Factors involved in water management
      • Hard questions for the West
      • Sustainability versus current conditions

 

  • River Science & Policy:  Graf
    • The nature of the relationship between researchers and policy makers in the American West as it pertains to river processes, resource management, and the future of western rivers.

 

 

  • Bob Crifasi: City of Boulder Open Space & Mt Parks
    • Managemnent and values.
    • What issues does the City of Boulder and the Boulder watershed face in the coming years.

 

  • Water Management in the West: MacDonnell
    • The old versus the new west
    • Infrastructure and Institutions
    • Issues with the ‘status quo’
    • Agricultural versus urban needs

 

  • How Much Water Does a River Need?: Postel and Richter
    • Allocation
    • The role of science
    • Productivity
    • Public Trust
    • South African and Australian examples

 

  • The Changing West: Bates et. al.
    • Gordian Knot
    • Defining factors in the west
    • Water as source of values and principles

 

  • Water Quality: Murphy
    • Variability
    • Urban Water Patterns: quality and quantity
    • Contaminants
    • Sources: point and non-point
    • Pollution reduction strategies