ABSTRACT
Within the water sector, a war is being waged against nature. Rivers and aquifers are relentlessly over-exploited, and any rivers that seem to be in relatively better condition become targets for new dams, diversions, and inter-basin transfers. Even when riparian ecosystems collapse from too much water diverted, as has become the new normal for most river basins in the American West, proposals abound for yet more infrastructure to impound and divert still more water.
