Lessons flow from Klamath Basin water crisis

Lessons for Physicians from Flint's Water Crisis.

Physicians form a vital front in recognizing unusual clinical presentations that could herald a health threat. In the Flint water crisis, physicians can be credited with playing critical roles in both uncovering the crisis and providing leadership when government failed to respond effectively. Yet most physicians in Flint were not formally trained in advocacy or leadership and might have recogn...

Separating Efects of Water-use and Climatic Changes on Base Flow in the Lower Klamath Basin

Coho Salmon and Water Management in the Klamath Basin 6

The purpose of this chapter is to assist the broadest possible readership in understanding the ongoing controversy regarding the stipulation of minimum flows in the lower Klamath River between April and September 2001 to protect threatened coho salmon. It is not intended to be an evaluation of the National Marine Fisheries Service’s (NMFS) Biological Opinion (BiOp) on Klamath Basin coho salmon....

Lessons from the Crisis

This chapter aims to contribute to the debate on fi nancial system reform. In the fi rst part I describe what I perceive to be a massive regulatory failure, a breakdown that goes all the way from regulatory fundamentals to prudential implementation. Although there has been some truly shocking behavior in the world of fi nance, the universal denunciation of “fi nancial madness” is pointless. Man...

Water War in the Klamath Basin: Macho Law, Combat Biology, and Dirty Politics

In July 2001, employees of the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation closed the big steel gates across the intake of a major irrigation canal just outside the town of Klamath Falls, Oregon. Water stopped flowing to about 85% of the farms in the Klamath Basin, a high-elevation bowl ringed by forested mountains on the Oregon–California border. The ostensible purpose of the shutdown was to protect three thre...