Description
While we have long been concerned about conserving fossil fuels, the same cannot be said for an even more precious resource —water. Only in the last few years have government agencies and markets begun to tackle the problem of dwindling clean water resources. Water scarcity, however, is not a new problem. This lecture looks at the historical context in which scarcity developed, focusing on the Rio Grande.
María Montoya is a Global Network Associate Professor of History at New York University and former Dean of Arts and Sciences at NYU Shanghai. She earned her BA, MA, and PhD degrees at Yale University. Her research explores how workers and families in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries used natural resources to make their homes in the American West. Montoya is the author of numerous works on the American West, environmental labor, and Latina/o history.