Due to the depth of analysis current complexities behind the Colorado and Brahmaputra management systems require, I revamped the Focussed Assessment page. Now that I feel confident about the information presented there, I have been working on broadening the scope of my study to all major transboundary basins. I’m finding that the pattens and similarities I found between the Colorado and Brahmaputra management strategies, both historical and current, are extremely relevant to many other watersheds. As climate variability is increasingly recognized as a major problem, the way that many nations have responded has been largely uninfluential and will be inefficient in the long-term. In some cases, there have been general cooperative agreements developed, but very few have specific allocations or strategies determined, especially in the case of extreme drought. I also plan on analyzing recent agreements between India and Bangladesh, which have been the more adaptive than most.
Investigations by Lydia Bleifuss