Marketing Western Water: Can a Process Based Geographic Information System Improve Reallocation Decisions?

摘要

Reallocting water is a politically sensitive issue in the western United States. Changes from agricultural uses to urban or Environmental uses are occurring, but the process tends to polarize Competing water users, thus creating barriers to reallocation. Other Barriers are inherent in the appropriation doctrine, and some Barriers exist because of poor data or inadequate science. These Barriers could be more easily overcome and the process made less Political if the impacts of change were better known. Water users Frequently resist change because of the uncertainty change brings.