Open AccessChallenging the rhetoric of water wars
Author(s) -
Showstack Randy
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
eos, transactions american geophysical union
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.316
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 2324-9250
pISSN - 0096-3941
DOI - 10.1029/00eo00305
Subject(s) - globe , water scarcity , threatened species , rhetoric , scarcity , environmental ethics , american west , political science , history , environmental planning , development economics , natural resource economics , water resource management , geography , environmental science , economics , ethnology , psychology , philosophy , archaeology , ecology , linguistics , neuroscience , habitat , biology , microeconomics , agriculture
In the West, whiskey is for drinking, and water is for fighting over, goes an adage coined by author Mark Twain. Over the years, concerns over water scarcity have threatened to boil over and led to conflicts in the American West and around the globe. In many of these instances, dams and potentially conflicting uses of water are at the heart of the conflict.