. Governments dominated water management throughout the 20th century. Tasked with ensuring a public supply of clean, safe, reliable …, and affordable water, governmental agencies controlled water administration in most of the world. They built the dams …, reservoirs, and aqueducts to store water when available and move that water to areas with increasing populations and economies …

Dams are essential for water storage and hydropower generation, but change river flow patterns and endanger local … of institutional factors: (1) each country pursues its own interests, (2) efficient cooperation along the river and (3 … projects and their externalities. We demonstrate our approach for the Mekong River incorporating expert hydrological knowledge …

to more water intensive crops, or an expansion of cropland. However, in drought years CPIS presence does have a …Irrigation in the Eastern US receives little attention compared to the West, but farmers in humid states of the US …, traditionally reliant on rainfall, have more than tripled irrigation since 1978. We examine this trend in Illinois where there has …