My name is Lydia Bleifuss and I am an environmental studies major at Lewis & Clark College. I grew up in Wisconsin but now am living between Portland, Oregon and Buena Vista, Colorado.
This site combines my past and present research in the ENVS program. My concentration focuses on surface water conflicts in newly industrialized countries. These countries are facing increasingly large problems with water management as their populations and economies expand, in combination with increasing climate variations. Transboundary basin water management has become an increasingly prominent focus of mine, in addition to hydroelectric damming. My interests have most recently aligned with water issues in the Southwestern United States, China, Argentina, and Chile.