Water crisis, policy making and the role of academia

François-Michel Le Tourneau (FMLT): Could you describe the situation of water in your state, Arizona? Kirsten Engel (KE): This region is a desert, a very fragile desert and so the amount of water that's here is not sufficient to support a lot of the demands that we have for water. An enormous...

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Publicado no:URI:https://journals.openedition.org/ideas,
Autor principal: Le Tourneau, François-Michel
Formato: Article ou chapitre numérique
Idioma:Anglais
Publicado em: IdeAs 2020
Acesso em linha:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Resumo:François-Michel Le Tourneau (FMLT): Could you describe the situation of water in your state, Arizona? Kirsten Engel (KE): This region is a desert, a very fragile desert and so the amount of water that's here is not sufficient to support a lot of the demands that we have for water. An enormous demand comes from agriculture but also from new housing development. We have a state which is a desert that has some native riparian surface waters, but at this point it is a very managed system where w...