The Political Water Web of the United States

<p>The United States’ water systems are interstate in their nature; these systems are governed by Congressional compact agreements. Water compacts have been influenced by common factors that have reverberated throughout the water-web of the country. These impacts varied in their scale, national level federal regulations, such as the Endangered Species Act of 1973, and recent concerns about climate change are macro-scale influences. Localized drivers such as regional economics and population change are localized impacts. While these concepts and issues influence water compacts as a whole, their impacts occur at different periods, albeit for the same reason. As such, we see a political web emerge that ties all the water compacts within the country, this web is impacted by the same drivers that reverberate at different times.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Engineering (M.E.)

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Civil Engineering

Year dc:date.available

2017

Author dc:creator

• Hammad, Omar

Contributors dc:contributor

• Naresh Devineni

• Political Water Web
• Compact Agreements
• Water Compacts
• Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River Compact
• Rio Grande Compact
• Delaware Compact
• Environmental Engineering
• Environmental Law
• Environmental Policy
• Infrastructure
• Urban Studies and Planning

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https://academicworks.cuny.edu/cc_etds_theses/711

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oai:academicworks.cuny.edu:cc_etds_theses-1727