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"A River Captured explores the controversial history of the Columbia River Treaty and its impact on the ecosystems, indigenous peoples, contemporary culture, provincial politics and recent history of southeastern British Columbia and the Pacific Northwest. Long lauded as a model of international cooperation, the Columbia River Treaty governs the storage and management of the waters of the upper Columbia River basin, a region rich in water resources, with a natural geography well suited to hydroelectric megaprojects. The Treaty also caused the displacement of over 2,000 residents of over a dozen communities, flooded and destroyed archaeological sites and up-ended once healthy fisheries. The book begins with a review of key historical events that preceded the Treaty, including the Depression-era construction of Grand Coulee Dam in central Washington, a project that resulted in the extirpation of prolific runs of chinook, coho and sockeye into B.C. Prompted by concerns over the 1948 flood, American and Canadian political leaders began to focus their policy energy on governing the flow of the snow-charged Columbia to suit agricultural and industrial interests. Referring to national and provincial politics, First Nations history, and ecology, the narrative weaves from the present day to the past and back again in an engaging and unflinching examination of how and why Canada decided to sell water storage rights to American interests. The resulting Treaty flooded three major river valleys with four dams, all constructed in a single decade. At the heart of this survey of the Treaty and its impacts is the lack of consultation with local people. Those outside the region in urban areas or government benefited most. Those living in the region suffered the most losses. Specific stories of affected individuals are laced with accounts of betrayal, broken promises and unfair treatment, all of which serve as a reminder of the significant impact that policy, international agreements and corporate resource extraction can have on the individual's ability to live a grounded life, in a particular place. Another little-known aspect of the Treaty's history is the 1956 "extinction" of the Arrow Lakes Indians, or Sinixt, whose transboundary traditional territory once stretched from Washington State to the mountains above Revelstoke, B.C. Several thousand Sinixt today living south of the border have no rights or status in Canada, despite their inherent aboriginal rights to land that was given over by the Treaty to hydroelectric production and agricultural flood control"--Publisher's website.

Water resources development --- Energy development --- Natural resources --- Water-supply --- Law and legislation --- Social aspects --- Environmental aspects --- Columbia River Watershed --- Columbia Basin --- Columbia River Basin --- Social conditions. --- Columbia River Treaty --- Treaty between Canada and the United States of America relating to Cooperative Development of the Water Resources of the Columbia River Basin --- Treaty between the United States of America and Canada relating to Cooperative Development of the Water Resources of the Columbia River Basin --- Columbia Treaty

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In Following the Proper Channels: Tributaries in the Mekong Legal Regime , Bennett Bearden offers in-depth policy and legal analyses of the marginalization of tributaries in the context of the 1995 Agreement on the Cooperation for the Sustainable Development of the Mekong River Basin, law of international watercourses, hydrosovereignty, and the national economic development interests of the Mekong riparians. As a problem-based study, enlightening conclusions are made based on the increasingly state-centric nature of water resources management in the Mekong region through pursuit of national agendas in the unilateral and bilateral development of tributaries. The overarching legal and hydropolicy issue is whether states can simultaneously pursue hydrosovereignty on tributaries and ensure the Mekong legal regime’s efficacy to achieve holistic water resources management and basin-wide governance.

Water resources development --- Water-supply --- Energy development --- Natural resources --- Availability, Water --- Water availability --- Water resources --- Public utilities --- Water utilities --- Law and legislation --- Mekong River Watershed --- Mekong River Basin --- International status.

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"In the name of agriculture, urban growth, and disease control, humans have drained, filled, or otherwise destroyed nearly 87 percent of the world's wetlands over the past three centuries. Unintended consequences include biodiversity loss, poor water quality, and the erosion of cultural sites, and only in the past few decades have wetlands been widely recognized as worth preserving. Emily O'Gorman asks, What has counted as a wetland, for whom, and with what consequences? Using the Murray-Darling Basin-a massive river system in eastern Australia that includes over 30,000 wetland areas-as a case study and drawing on archival research and original interviews, O'Gorman examines how people and animals have shaped wetlands from the late nineteenth century to today. She illuminates deeper dynamics by relating how Aboriginal peoples acted then and now as custodians of the landscape, despite the policies of the Australian government; how the movements of water birds affected farmers; and how mosquitoes have defied efforts to fully understand, let alone control, them. Situating the region's history within global environmental humanities conversations, O'Gorman argues that we need to understand wetlands as socioecological landscapes in order to create new kinds of relationships with and futures for these places"--

Human ecology --- Murray River Watershed (N.S.W.-S.A.) --- Darling River Watershed (Qld. and N.S.W.) --- Darling River Basin (Qld. and N.S.W.) --- Murray River Watershed (N.S.W.-S. Aust.) --- Environmental conditions. --- Ecology. --- Human ecology.

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Canyons --- Boatmen --- River engineering --- Engineering, River --- Hydraulic engineering --- Water resources development --- Cañons --- Valleys --- Boat operators --- Boat users --- Boatwomen --- Pleasure boaters --- Recreational boaters --- Persons --- Biography. --- History. --- Blake, Henry Elwyn, --- Blake, Elwyn, --- Blake, H. Elwyn --- Colorado River Watershed (Colo.-Mexico) --- Colorado River Basin (Colo.-Mexico) --- Surveys. --- Description and travel. --- Boaters (Persons)

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Salmon stock management --- Salmon fishing --- Salmon industry --- Fisheries --- Fishes --- Fish --- Pisces --- Aquatic animals --- Vertebrates --- Fishing --- Ichthyology --- Coastal fisheries --- Commercial fisheries --- Commercial fishing industry --- Farms, Fish --- Fish farms --- Fishery industry --- Fishery methods --- Fishing industry --- Freshwater fisheries --- Inland fisheries --- Large-scale fisheries --- Marine fisheries --- Marine recreational fisheries --- Recreational fisheries --- Sea fisheries --- Sea fishing industry --- Sport fisheries --- Aquaculture --- Wildlife utilization --- Fishery sciences --- Fish trade --- Fishery management --- Conservation --- Arctic Coast (Alaska) --- Kuskokwim River Watershed (Alaska) --- Yukon River Watershed (Yukon and Alaska) --- Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta (Alaska) --- Kuskokwim River (Alaska) --- Kuskokwim River Delta (Alaska) --- Yukon River (Yukon and Alaska) --- Yukon River Delta (Alaska) --- Yukon Basin (Yukon and Alaska) --- Yukon River Basin (Yukon and Alaska) --- Yukon River Drainage (Yukon and Alaska) --- Kuskokwim Basin (Alaska) --- Kuskokwim River Basin (Alaska) --- Delta