Assignment task:
The following questions refer to the reading "Hydrodiplomacy and adaptive governance at the U.S.-Mexico border." Answer these questions in three sentences or less. Do not cut and paste from the article.
Q1. How do the authors define hydrodiplomacy?
Q2. What do the authors mean by "a "zero-sum" view of water and why is "avoiding such framing is the most important aspiration for water-resources negotiations?"
Q3. What is "adaptive governance" and how does it relate to hydrodiplomacy?
Q4. What is the importance of social institutions in adaptive governance?
Q5. What is "transboundary social learning?"
Q6. Why do the authors say that the border area is characterized by poverty and economic asymmetry?
Q7. How does the 1944 Treaty address US-Mexico binational water allocation, infrastructure and development, and shortage?
Q8. What are the US International Boundary and Water Commission (IBWC) and Comisión Nacional de Límites y Aguas (CILA) and why are these organizations relevant to binational governance of waters shared by the US and Mexico?
Q9. What is the "minutes" process and how does it contribute to solving problems related to US-Mexico management?
Q10. What is the salinity crisis of 1961-1973 and how was it resolved?
Q11. How is trade between the US and Mexico linked to the environment?
Q12. What is NADBank and what role does it play in solving water problems along the US-Mexico border?
Q13. What is the water debt crisis on Rio Grande of 1999-2002, what factors contributed to the crisis, and how was it resolved?14. What are transboundary aquifers?