Water Rights

  1. Grantham, T., & Viers, J. (2014). 100 years of California’s water rights system: Patterns, trends and uncertainty. 8.http://iopscience.iop.org/1748-9326/9/8/084012/article
    1. This article mainly talks about the mishandling of water in California. Over the years scientists have misread how big our population will grow and in doing so have overestimated how much water we have. We as humans don’t realize how much water we use, so when we get into droughts like this is creates an even bigger effect not just on us but on the environment around us.
    2. This article is related to environmental science because it is a part of the water issues that we are facing today. We also need to learn ways to prevent these issues from happening again. These trends that we see are important to notice because we want to have future generations be able to help change these issues as well.