Settler Computing: Water Algorithms and the Equitable Apportionment Doctrine on the Colorado River, 1950–1990.

This article links optimization algorithms in US southwestern water management to equitable apportionment and prior appropriation water policies in the 1950–1990 period. I argue that quantitative water law and algorithmic water management are coconstitutive historical processes, as they derive from...

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Published in:	Osiris Vol. 38; no. 1; pp. 265 - 286
Main Author:	Dryer, Theodora
Format:	Article
Published:	University of Chicago Press 2023
Subjects:	United States. Bureau of Reclamation Optimization algorithms Water laws Water Water management Natural resources
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost