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Final Project

Final Project. Due April 22 Should include in a notebook Table of Contents Statement of the topic and situation for the project (1-2 pages) Weekly information gathered from news and other sources. Be sure you have these clearly dated with at least one for each week.

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Final Project

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  1. Final Project • Due April 22 • Should include in a notebook • Table of Contents • Statement of the topic and situation for the project (1-2 pages) • Weekly information gathered from news and other sources. Be sure you have these clearly dated with at least one for each week. • Review of the historical background and important empirical information (4-5 pages) • An analysis of the situation that makes use of the various declarations that are important for your issue and the theoretical perspectives that we explore • A summary of the practical approaches that are being used to address this situation • A final analysis with your recommendations • A bibliography

  2. Reports • Jon Menges • Jake Van Asten • Allison Ackermann

  3. Water Wars II Vandana Shiva

  4. Review • She is arguing for ecological democracy. • She is presenting the case that water and how we manage and think about it is central to such democracy • She has presented information on privatization of water • She has connected climate change and the water crisis

  5. Chapter 3: The Colonization of Rivers • Bhakra Dam • Hoover Dam

  6. The Colonization of Rivers • What are the real results of these projects? • Public cost and private gain (56) • Conflicts • Displacement

  7. The Colonization of Rivers • Water Conflicts • (70) US and Mexico • (71) Turkey and Iraq • (72) Israel and the West Bank • (74) The Nile

  8. The Colonization of Rivers • Displacement • Bhakra displaced 2,180 families (65) • China has displace 10 million people (67) • Worldwide, 40-80 million people have been displaced

  9. Water rules are not adequate • Four theories (77ff) • Territorial sovereignty • Harmon doctrine—countries are sovereign • Natural water flow • Territorial integrity theory, unhampered flow • Equitable apportionment • Gained international acceptance • Community interest

  10. None of these address the ecological impacts. They assume water as wasted if not used • (82) A needed dialogue and links • Movement against dams • Movement against ecological hazards of intensive irrigation • Movement for water rights

  11. Chapter 4: World Bank, WTO, and Corporate Control • If in chapter 3, we come to see what is needed, in this chapter we see that what is actually happening works against what is needed.

  12. World Bank, WTO, and Corporate Control • (87) The World Bank supports public funds and private profit • (89) Look at some of the examples she gives • (92-93) GATS (General Agreement of Trade in Services) • These take control from countries and people • Reverse democratization

  13. Stories • The results of privatization • The example of Bolivia (102)

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