Water Sustainability in the Western U.S.

Catalog description

This course provides a multi-disciplinary overview of the issues surrounding the biggest challenges to the sustainability of life in the West, with special attention on the impacts of important human and natural influences on the use and sustainability of western United States water supplies. Students learn about the issues involved in meeting the needs for water by people, agriculture, and wildlife, how infrastructure allows water to be moved and used, and the processes used to govern water allocation. This course fulfills a CSUG Natural and Physical Sciences requirement. This is an approved Colorado gtPathways course (GT-SC2).