Hannah Whitley Opines: 'The Klamath Basin Is Not a Lost Cause: Controversy and Compromise in One of America's Most Contentious Watersheds'

Hannah Whitley is an optimist. She has faith in the people of the Klamath Basin.

The intro to her article:

I am presently conducting fieldwork for my dissertation, which tackles one of the big questions at the intersection of human interests and natural resources: as a society, what do we do when too little water has been promised to too many people? What should we be doing differently? In the United States there is no better place to turn for answers to these questions than the Klamath Basin.

The Klamath Basin watershed is considered one of the most complicated areas for water governance in the United States owing to its transboundary location (the basin crosses the Oregon-California border), its history of complex litigation and persistent inter-institutional (and inter-personal) conflict and the more than 60 groups of people  who have an interest in the basin's water allocation. Some have given up hope that the challenges of water allocation in the Klamath Basin can ever be effectively addressed. But as resilient stakeholders show, the Klamath Basin is not a lost cause.

Download Whitley_Water_Resources_IMPACT_Sept_Oct2022

Enjoy!

"What do we do when too little water has been promised to too many people?" - Hannah Whitley