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Re: #9: The Dry States
By: zwalker2020 Date: February 26, 2019, 8:50 pm
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These readings were pretty compelling to me, though they
overlapped a lot with the readings from last night. They really
show that water (or a lack thereof) is a much more complicated
problem than it originally might seem to someone. Similarly to
other I didn't really know that the government had ownership of
so much land in Western U.S. states, which really shows how much
more involved it is in drier, more arid states in the country. I
also think it definitely helps show that it takes a lot more
effort to bring water into these states, since with only a few
exceptions water doesn't exist in many of these states, many of
which are mostly covered in deserts. In my opinion people have
forced water to be sent to places where it would have never gone
naturally, making it both unusual and unnatural for water to be
brought to these locations in the first place. This water being
moved west corresponds with humanity's journey to the western
parts of the U.S.
I really think it was interesting how in the 19th and 20th
centuries, and maybe even today "the west" was seen as a place
to travel to and live in in the United States, but it didn't
even have something like water that would be able to support a
population living there. It's odd how people ignore this.
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Re: #9: The Dry States
By: ebartel2020 Date: February 26, 2019, 8:56 pm
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I think that because moving water to places that do not have an
abundance of it is non-natural because it takes energy and uses
up other resources. It is interesting that there are
environmental effects of making sure that everyone has access to
a basic environmental need because it is meant to be natural.
The environmental effects are that transportation uses up
resources in itself.
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Re: #9: The Dry States
By: Ahmed_A Date: February 26, 2019, 9:15 pm
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I think it is supply and demand that fundamentally defines the
aridity of a region. While water is a necessity on individual
basis, it is also a resource whose value can be identified by
using economic concepts, such as the availability of it and the
need for it. Did on touches on that by stating the reverence of
water showed in Western states more than eastern ones, and the
significance of moving the water, due to the rarity of it.
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